My boss was on holiday to Egypt last week. Good for him, but while he was gone, every single employee in office was as if on vacation too. No one came to office before 11am, when office hours begin at 9:30. Most people took long lunch breaks. Many others disappeared after lunch. He returned on Monday and what do we see, everyone was in office clacking away at 9:31am. In fact the one girl that showed up at 10 got a red slip from the HR head for being late.

We are a small start up with a make shift office and no rule book in place yet. But I wonder, given a chance, how many of us do not exploit our freedom? How many of us are really passionate about our work? How many of us work for ourselves and not for the boss to see? Mind you, most of these people claim to be workaholics. They stay in office till 8pm on a normal day. Then again, the same bunch is the rather active sort on orkut too. mmm.. makes me wonder.

You’d say, well, bosses are smart enough to know what goes on behind their back. Are they really is the question? And whats the solution to such a problem?