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Upper management recently brought up that there are too many people going on the morning coffee run at a nearby cafe at once, and that it "disrupts the work routines" of other people. The group is usually 3-5 people, and today it was 6-7 that all went simultaneously after the morning scrum. This usually takes no longer than 10-15 mins.
While I understand that in our small company (~20 people) that is a noticeable absence, it really rubs me the wrong way. Upper management always wants to keep a tight grip on everything, and there isn't a lot of trust. So it felt like a deliberate attempt to limit coworker's interactions with one another outside the office.
Does my boss have a reasonable concern here? Am I just biased?
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Upper management recently brought up that there are too many people going on the morning coffee run at a nearby cafe at once, and that it "disrupts the work routines" of other people. The group is usually 3-5 people, and today it was 6-7 that all went simultaneously after the morning scrum. This usually takes no longer than 10-15 mins.
While I understand that in our small company (~20 people) that is a noticeable absence, it really rubs me the wrong way. Upper management always wants to keep a tight grip on everything, and there isn't a lot of trust. So it felt like a deliberate attempt to limit coworker's interactions with one another outside the office.
Does my boss have a reasonable concern here? Am I just biased?
productivity startup break-time
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Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
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Upper management recently brought up that there are too many people going on the morning coffee run at a nearby cafe at once, and that it "disrupts the work routines" of other people. The group is usually 3-5 people, and today it was 6-7 that all went simultaneously after the morning scrum. This usually takes no longer than 10-15 mins.
While I understand that in our small company (~20 people) that is a noticeable absence, it really rubs me the wrong way. Upper management always wants to keep a tight grip on everything, and there isn't a lot of trust. So it felt like a deliberate attempt to limit coworker's interactions with one another outside the office.
Does my boss have a reasonable concern here? Am I just biased?
productivity startup break-time
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Upper management recently brought up that there are too many people going on the morning coffee run at a nearby cafe at once, and that it "disrupts the work routines" of other people. The group is usually 3-5 people, and today it was 6-7 that all went simultaneously after the morning scrum. This usually takes no longer than 10-15 mins.
While I understand that in our small company (~20 people) that is a noticeable absence, it really rubs me the wrong way. Upper management always wants to keep a tight grip on everything, and there isn't a lot of trust. So it felt like a deliberate attempt to limit coworker's interactions with one another outside the office.
Does my boss have a reasonable concern here? Am I just biased?
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Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
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Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
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Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
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Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
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Frankly speaking, as long as the work expectations are met, how individuals are managing their time should not matter much to the supervisor / upper management. In other words, as long as the work is accomplished within the expected timeline, usually no one bothers about how the time was managed.
You may need to see, whether there are other reasons being this objection, like missing delivery timeline, or a drop in quality - which in turn might have triggered this time-monitoring practice.
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Frankly speaking, as long as the work expectations are met, how individuals are managing their time should not matter much to the supervisor / upper management. In other words, as long as the work is accomplished within the expected timeline, usually no one bothers about how the time was managed.
You may need to see, whether there are other reasons being this objection, like missing delivery timeline, or a drop in quality - which in turn might have triggered this time-monitoring practice.
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Frankly speaking, as long as the work expectations are met, how individuals are managing their time should not matter much to the supervisor / upper management. In other words, as long as the work is accomplished within the expected timeline, usually no one bothers about how the time was managed.
You may need to see, whether there are other reasons being this objection, like missing delivery timeline, or a drop in quality - which in turn might have triggered this time-monitoring practice.
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Frankly speaking, as long as the work expectations are met, how individuals are managing their time should not matter much to the supervisor / upper management. In other words, as long as the work is accomplished within the expected timeline, usually no one bothers about how the time was managed.
You may need to see, whether there are other reasons being this objection, like missing delivery timeline, or a drop in quality - which in turn might have triggered this time-monitoring practice.
Frankly speaking, as long as the work expectations are met, how individuals are managing their time should not matter much to the supervisor / upper management. In other words, as long as the work is accomplished within the expected timeline, usually no one bothers about how the time was managed.
You may need to see, whether there are other reasons being this objection, like missing delivery timeline, or a drop in quality - which in turn might have triggered this time-monitoring practice.
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Whose work routines are they claiming it's disrupting?
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