"Mumbai. After having observed increased level of happiness and satisfaction among the employees in the past few weeks, the HR team of Hindustan Companies Limited (HCL) met today to discuss innovative ways of reducing employee pleasure to bring it down to the acceptable levels. The three member top level team is expected to finish its brainstorming session by 5.30 PM sharp and submit its recommendations to the top management tomorrow.
“We had received specific information from our sources that employees were seen generally happy and jovial in the past few weeks. No important announcement or managerial decisions were taken in the concerned duration that could have logically added to the overall well-being of the employees. At best, the development could be termed an aberration.” Hari Sadu, HR head of HCL said.

After having personally witnessed the increased happiness among the employees yesterday, when he saw a group of employees laughing and cracking jokes during the lunch break, a puzzled and concerned Hari Sadu called for an emergency meeting today morning, which continued till reports last came in.
“I too have seen these guys spending too much time in cafeteria, near coffee-vending machines or in the smoking corners and being jolly for almost no apparent reason.” Nitya Udaas, senior HR manager, shared the concern, further adding, “Maybe the workload has reduced of late. We have to check with the sales department if we are getting enough business.”
“I have noticed that even the toilets are occupied for longer duration these days.” quipped Anand Anjaan, third member of the top-level team, wondering what was going on in the office.
After discussing various problems and irregularities in employee behavior, the HR team also discussed employing some innovative techniques to control employee pleasure.
“We could make the coffee-vending machine operative only after swiping it with the identity cards. We can get data on which employee is spending maximum time drinking coffee and accordingly deal with the problem.” proposed Hari Sadu, directing Anand to find out how much will such a swapping machine cost and to send a proposal to the Finance department.
“Also find out the cost of that toilet-timer that switches off the lights in toilets after ten minutes. This will make sure that no employee spends too much time over there, while we would project it as an electricity saving initiative towards making HCL green.” interjected Nitya, which was well appreciated by Hari and Anand.
HR team was still in the board room when this report was filed, with smiles returning to their faces as they discussed and analyzed the problem at hand in detail.


The above article is taken from the Fakingnews.com and for someone who is passionate about HR this article looked superb but what really caught my eye were the comments made by the people who said most of things like measuring time in coffee joints were being measured and it irked them.

This brings me a scenario which we are facing now

(i) DO we feel that if people spend too much time having coffee or in the rest room then rather than looking at it as decreased productivity, did we have an interaction with them on if some issue is affecting them and how probably we can assist them.

(ii) Do we need to spy on our colleagues to find out what they are doing and what they should do? Rather than that shouldn’t we be creating plans of making them involved in work if the work. Even after that if the nature of work is making them restless, we ought to find out if they are suited for it. If not change them to an area which they prefer

and finally guess the anger and hatred towards HR is probably the fact that steeped in tradition are the basic aspects of moral policing, compliances and regulation maintenance which are not for the taking of the new generation at work, Its time we should adapt our way of working rather talking what is written we should find out more and add value to the business not just maintain the values.

These will ultimately make the HR more respected it’s a fact that in the best organizations people working prefer to call themselves as the employees first and then as their department staff or people that is all down to how the organization values their people which will ultimately make the difference we always like to point out on great plans of futuristic looking proactive organizations but that far outweigh the conservative personnel organization and changing that would mean a show of success for the HR fraternity


Cheers

Arvind !!