Phones In The Workplace


And that's the key point. If it's preventing objectives being achieved, then it's a problem. If it's not, there's no issue.

Imagine having a member of staff who is knocking it out the park, consistently producing to deadlines etc getting sacked for being on their phone :lol:

It's an outdated view and more and more olaces are recognising it. Same as hours worked. Should be about task completions etc. How long they are 'at their desk' matters not.
I agree
 
Safety issue in some environments so have to just have an outright ban, if people are operating machinery its as dangerous as using one while driving.
 
Afternoon all,

What’s your companies stance on mobile phones in your work place ?


Since I’ve had to bring new blood in it’s a problem I’ve had to tackle head on,telling lads to leave their phones in their bags until bait time,threats of the sack,etc etc.
It’s a real addiction to some people and they can’t put them down,hence me implementing draconian measures.I’ve been think “what the fu k have these been allowed to get away with elsewhere?”


It then got me thinking of this place,the amount of people who post during the day who have 9-5 jobs is mind blowing.How do you get away with it?



Thanks now.
WFH
 
Think it depends on the workplace and what happens there really. Parts of our place they are banned and supposed to be locked away In lockers but still see people using them all the time. I have known people disciplined for it
 
I work public sector and I have a work mobile, work at home 3 out of 5 days a week and therefore the policy is as long as your work gets done no one gives a toss. As long as you aren’t using your work devices for using their data to steam films/music or watching porn or using gambling sites etc no one would batter an eyelid.

I personally don’t use my work devices for any non work use bar the odd flicking on the news / this etc around lunchtime but I’d never use it for anything more. I don’t think the monitoring systems are exactly MI5 standard mind but obviously if concerns were highlighted with your work performance they would probably use logs as evidence in the most extreme case to see if you’d spent the day/week messing about if nowt was getting done.

I know quite a few who have piss easy wfh / predominantly wfh roles where they do a bit of work / emails on a morning and piss about on an afternoon. They even acknowledge (how easy their jobs are and the messing about) it anarl.

Not sure how it’s not noted / identified that said people clearly aren’t being given enough work to do mind.

I suspect there has been an increase in a lot of wasted time / lost productivity in office based roles that are remote workable since covid mind.

Not just public sector either. I was formally private side and I worked for some utterly lazy supervisors who would pretend they’d been grafting their bollocks off all day when they needed to say it, when even in the nearly all the time office based times pre covid they be sat on their phones or chatting and doing next to nowt.

Think the majority of people in these sorts of roles like me are genuine and do the graft that needs to be done but working from home definitely has enabled the skivers to get away as they please to an extent.


Anyway I digress slightly from the point the op makes about phones!
 
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In my last place phones were banned on the shop floor
Well until everyone stopped checking and failed to join the conference calls
The thing that annoyed me was it was my personal phone and they expected me to
check Whatsapp, company emails, etc. even on my days off, in the end I told them I didn't have data and no mobile signal at home.
 
In my last place phones were banned on the shop floor
Well until everyone stopped checking and failed to join the conference calls
The thing that annoyed me was it was my personal phone and they expected me to
check Whatsapp, company emails, etc. even on my days off, in the end I told them I didn't have data and no mobile signal at home.
Sounds like you work for a scumpany.
 
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My work place they are generally a necessity as its how we get our secure logon authentication.

But if someone playing candy crush when they should be working they get bollocked
 
Currently work in IT so use mobile gear quite a lot. Can even sort a few IT issues out using my phone. Work heavily with Microsoft 365 and Teams which is also installed on my phone so my phone usage can be quite high, but it’s work.

Using a phone for personal stuff such as social media and texting seems to have become the norm now though I’m most jobs. As others have said the only way around it is to dismiss people who use them heavily but you’d have no staff left.
 
In construction on the big sites I’m on sometimes, you aren’t allowed on your phone unless in a green area or expected to use common sense and use it away from other work areas/tradesmen, in my opinion be harsh if the person is influencing others to use there’s, but if someone isn’t doing that and is hitting there workload targets then I’d just let it pass, I know I’ve contemplated just walking off site at 10am on some bad mornings, taking a 2 min breather, watching a daft video on wats app has sorted me out.
 
Threatened to throw someones out the window (5th floor) once after I`d clocked them on it loads over the course of a few weeks.

I was the one in the wrong apparently but phones were told to be on silent / off desks afterwards in a memo from management
 
I have a works phone, but a few of our staff use their personal phones for works purposes, so it wouldn't be beneficial to management to stop folk using them.
As long as we're not taking the piss then there doesn't seem an issue.
 
Have used my/a mobile for personal use in the workplace every day for the past 25 years. By the same token I also routinely take complex calls and answer detailed emails during the evening and at weekends.
 
I am going to be a hypocrite as I am able to use my phone at work due to the nature of my job. However seeing someone piss about on their phones instead of getting on with the job looks unprofessional for a start, and they can't be working with a phone in their hand, and lets not get started on someone playing stupid videos. Its also really annoying when you are cracking on with work and your workmate is just standing there on their phones not pulling their weight. So with that being said you are spot on, they need to be told no phones unless emergencies or breaks and if they want to act like kids you'll treat them like kids. They might need bladdering if they can't follow simple rules
Exactly.I will bladder them aswell no question.


What’s going on in their heads though ?How shallow and empty are their lives,really?
I work in the Civil Service, people are on their phones all the time at their desk.
Imagine my shock in reading this
 
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