how a lot socializing at work is an excessive amount of?
A reader writes:
I’m a supervisor at an workplace of 35 workers and everyone seems to be pretty autonomous in managing their workload. We’re a reasonably social and informal group, so it’s no massive deal for folks to socialize with each other to a sure extent. Nevertheless, I’ve not too long ago observed that there appear to be extra frequent, extended socializing periods with some teams of individuals. I might guess it’s 3-5 days every week for 45 minutes or extra every time. I feel it most likely begins out as work-related conversations however then wanders into extra social territory. Is this beautiful typical? My concern is that individuals are getting too relaxed and pushing aside the precise work that must be accomplished after which high quality is struggling (high quality is tough to measure in my job so that is troublesome to trace). My concern with addressing it’s that I don’t need to kill morale. If you happen to suppose it does should be addressed, how would you accomplish that?
I reply this query over at Inc. at this time, the place I’m revisiting letters which were buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and typically updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.