The company I work for has announced that they are eliminating the attendance points system.
The way it worked was there were a series of point accumulated for being late, calling in, leaving early and such. Once you reached 8 points you received a warning and at 10 you were released. This was directly tied to HR and there was not much wiggle room.
Your points expired 6 months after you received them.
Now, they are just taking that system away and leaving it to the supervisors to work directly with the employees to meet expectation. I see this as a possible great thing, but it leaves so much room for inconsistency.
Good example – I have to drop my kids at summer daycare that doesn’t open until later. This makes me consistently 10 minutes late. Now I can work that with my supervisor and there is no consequence.
Bad example – Different supervisors have different expectations and some people will abuse this and leave us here to do all the work.
Do you guys see this as a good or bad thing?