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 classes with some teams of individuals. I might guess it’s 3-5 days per week for 45 minutes or extra every time. I believe it in all probability begins out as work-related conversations however then wanders into extra social territory. Is this gorgeous typical? My concern is that individuals are getting too relaxed and pushing aside the precise work that must be performed 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 wish to kill morale. If you happen to assume it does must be addressed, how would you accomplish that?
I reply this query over at Inc. at the moment, the place I’m revisiting letters which have been buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and generally updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.