How many hours one should work in corporate, international time zone, start-up, personal business or in general, what are the decision-making guidelines and guidance that exists, this is what we will see here in this topic today!
This is directly related official guidelines for example as per your office, government policies - please read and adhere to that. One may work extra hours or flexible works, but this must be in alignment with the above said policies.
No, like the point # 1, there must be an alignment with the official policies and guidelines must be observed.
3. Working recommendations like 24 hours in a week, 72 hours in a week, 92 hours in a week? These are recommendations, but follow as per your individual and team setup, here are general guidance in an organization setup with working agreement and SLA type of approach.
- If an individual work as individual contributor and there is an SLA - Service Level Agreement, or Work definition with workflow, on how much max time can be taken for tasks and work items, it is easy to define the work hours, on the other hand
- If an individual work as a team member with dependencies internally and externally on the team, and other teams with no concrete definition of SLA or task workflow, then it is better to create a common working agreement.
- Women or Men usually who take care their family members and have lot of personal dependencies must consider taking help from HR and explain the personal dependencies and the workflow explained as individual or as team contributor, and this will help to define common working hours with an working agreement, within a team and office members, so that they can balance the time.
- Working with International clients and time zone related projects, people must appreciate taking rotational or volunteering efforts to balance their work and life, and this can help in the long-term to create better health.
- Productivity measures must rely on Quality driven and quality-based, as quality increases productivity increases. Quality is for every work and in each and every task we do.
