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As employees, we know that it’s hard to maintain a good work-life balance and with the past year, the lines have been blurred even more as we’ve all had to adjust to a new normal of working from home.
Sometimes we come in to work early, sometimes we stay late to get our work done, or sometimes we even leave a little early provided that the day’s work is done.
One office however is punishing its employees with a pay cut for leaving the premises two minutes earlier than allowed.
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An office in Japan that is part of the Board of Education of Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture has been making waves after it was found to have punished its employees for leaving early – two minutes early.
The Sankei News reported that the board found 316 instances of people writing false times on their time cards so they could leave work early.
A 59-year-old female employee who is an assistant section chief of the Lifelong Learning Department was said to have helped others to leave work early and as a result, she was given a one-tenth reduction in salary for three months.
The pay cut was intended to make up for the 137,000 (RM5,169) that was “lost” as a result of the early departures.
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Two other male staff members aged 27, and other female staff said to be in their 60s, were given written warnings for their actions while four others were given a strict caution.
According to reports, the assistant section chief who was given the pay cut, officially finishes work at 5.15pm but would leave work two minutes early so that she’d be able to catch the 5.17pm bus home instead of waiting for 30 minutes for the next one to arrive.
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The internet of course was sent into a frenzy to hear about the outrageous punishment of the office towards its employees.
“How many companies pay properly on a minute-by-minute basis?” one user commented. “If that were the case, then staff who work one minute overtime should get paid for it.”
“It would be nice if, when they found out about the bus timetable, they could make some flexible arrangement for government workers like getting them to come in a bit earlier instead,” another user suggested.
“People already arrive at least five minutes earlier than their scheduled time for work, so you’d think it would be okay for them to leave two minutes early,” another user argued.
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This is definitely an extreme measure for an office to take towards its employees.
To make sure this doesn’t happen to you, always make sure that your boss knows if you’re leaving the office early, even if it’s just two minutes…
Have you ever left the office early? Were you reprimanded for your actions? Let us know what happened!
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