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Started by : Gargi Sinha, Senior Consultant, Hewitt Associates   07 22 2011 04:22:50 +0000
Industry : Human Resources (HR) ConsultingFunctional Area : Performance Management(People Management)
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No, you got it wrong! I am not asking about a day or two. I am asking about the normal schedule. What are the things one needs to follow to leave office early? The most important thing for a person is to reach home on time and spend time with family. Or spend time doing recreative activities. You can never do this if you are in your office till dinner time.

              So what is that you can do to leave office early?


 
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1 Plan and discipline
2 Pick waste of time and allocate to your family or your creativity.
3 Stay close to work
4 work in an organization that has actually fix hours work
5 Tell the boss that you are going early.
6 Treat work as means for supporting your materilaistic life and not asa passion...life is work + other things
7 TEAM WORK ALONG WITH PLAN
8 be smart worker
9 Work should be first priority
10 Depends upon boss....
11 Work efficiency and time management
12 Type of job one holds
13 Delegate and be organised...
14 Manage Your Boss
15 Primarily Work Smart
16 Organize your TO DO list of office and house
17 Why??

Plan and discipline

idea posted by Gargi Sinha Senior Consultant, Hewitt Associates

Plan your day. Get up early, go to office early and have a mental check-list of work for the day. Never plan to reply all the emails coming in because they will keep on popping in. Do not waste time in chit-chatting and hacing coffee even if you do not need one. All this will save more than an hour. Trust me.

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by RAMESH KANDADAI, Principal Consultant, ARM Consultants  | 07 23 2011 04:31:25 +0000

being organized is what does it best. Go to office on time. Plan your work in advance. Do the work that is planned. Dont waste time fooling around in thew office. Finish all that is required to be done that day so that others are not delayed by you and go home. If you work like this, you will find that sooner or later you will end up going home at a civilized hour.

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by Rajesh Tekale, Counsel, Advocate on Record , High Court, Mumbai  | 07 22 2011 11:20:53 +0000

plan the day, on hourly basis and execute with discipline, you might go early.

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by SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Project Manager, Phadnis Infrastructur Ltd  | 07 22 2011 06:31:53 +0000

It is the better option, Gargi. I support your idea & thanks for referral.

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Pick waste of time and allocate to your family or your creativity.

idea posted by Mohammad Bakhsh Consultant(Civil), Rail Vikas Nigam Limited
Thanks,Gargi,you can not leave office early.Timings are fixed and so the attendance. The best option is to reschedule your activities and allocate extra time to your family and your creativity.
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by Mohammad Bakhsh, Consultant(Civil), Rail Vikas Nigam Limited  | 07 23 2011 12:01:05 +0000

Way back 1978 or so I went through a news item that process Industires in Germany adopt flexi hours for staff. The modus operandi was to leave late if friend has to come late or has an urgent domistic work,they had to work as per scheduled hours.

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by pragati parihar, MBA/PGDM student, banasthali university,jaipur  | 07 22 2011 17:39:33 +0000

thanks for referral, you cann't leave office before its schedule time but we have to plan as well as allocate our time according to our family.

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Stay close to work

idea posted by Isaac Madhavan R & D Manager, Test prep company

If you stay close to work OR the best thing, if you work from home, then it's as good as leaving early.

And it is actually even better than leaving work early because we reduce chances of traffic accidents and we also reduce our frustration, road rage, and exposure to pollution as well.

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by Suryanarayan Murthy, Free lancer  | 10 04 2011 09:17:34 +0000

Yes Mr. Isaac, I do it the same way. Go to office by 9 am - others come by 10 am - leave the office by 6 pm - others leave at 7 pm.

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by Isaac Madhavan, R & D Manager, Test prep company  | 10 04 2011 08:32:09 +0000

An alternative has just occurred to me. If we go to work much earlier than the rest of the people, we won't have traffic problems and our travel time is reduced to a fraction. Then, of course, having started early, we will have finished early and can leave again before the others and beat the traffic. We can be home early and spend the rest of the day doing a lot of stuff.

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work in an organization that has actually fix hours work

idea posted by Manish Chauhan Manager: Online Marketing, Infopro India Pvt Ltd
I am not sure if there is any organization in India that ideally follow the fix hours concept. Recently, I read Ratan Tata's statement regarding working culture of their UK staff that created a controversy all over. What Ratan Tata said shows the tipical Indian mentality...if you can work 18 hours a day, it doesn't mean you can also force others to work similar way. In UK and other western countries, workers are more educated and aware about their rights, and to do nothing wrong taking advantage of their rights. In India, if you talk about your rights, you would be considered as the biggest enemy of the organization. Agreed with Piyali Adhikary, you can not leave office early if you have proper plans in place. Because, if you would complete your work before time, your boss would consider that you can do more work and would load you with more work. So you would never be able to leave office early.
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by Munshi Ramchand, Retired  | 07 22 2011 09:10:56 +0000

"if you talk about your rights, you would be considered as the biggest enemy of the organization".

This is not true. West Bengal and Kerala are good examples where 95% of its industries were destroyed by these so called champions of 'rights of employees'. How can we describe poverty to people who haven't experienced it ever in their lives?

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Tell the boss that you are going early.

idea posted by Shashi Kumar U Manager accounts & commercial, Mazda Concrete Products Pvt Ltd
I do not know how many of you agree with me with this thought, but I have always been successful with it. When ever I want to leave the office or factory early I will go tell my boss that I want to leave early. There is one thing I always have my schedule laid out clearly, so I wanted to go early on a particular day I inform my boss and my team well in advance so that there will not be any issues in this regard.
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by Khem Raj, Sr. Manager - Online Marketing, IDZ Solutions  | 07 25 2011 07:08:17 +0000

Completely agree, reach office on time, Prepare a check-list of work for the day. Delegate you work diligently and try to make someone accountable for whatever you assign to your team so that work doesn’t hamper so as the company. Yes, I also agree with Manish, that there are bosses who will never let you go early even if you have completed your work on time or before time. They would expect you to do more. But it’s not a case with every employer. I also had been a part of such company where I was not allowed to leave office at 7 :( (on time) even if my work is completed

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Treat work as means for supporting your materilaistic life and not asa passion...life is work + other things

idea posted by prasadbulusu Project Leader/Managing Consultant, Rama Associates
We tend to mentally get sucked into office work and a time may come that we feel work is everything and all others are secondary...one has to get over this mental block...work sincerely and earn your wages but realize that life is work + so many other things ..like family; hobbies and leisure...one has to balance this attitude well and no doubt it's a tight rope walking !
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TEAM WORK ALONG WITH PLAN

idea posted by Yellapragada anand krishna naga bhushana rao Mechanical Engineer-Other, KVK Energy & Infra structure
Going right time to office and planning the things to be done today for first Half hour. All the work cant go according to plan then we have to take the help of our team to complete the work.
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be smart worker

idea posted by karthikrathnam Branch manager,

There is asaying- smart people always has leisure time,

just plane and schedule your work

Thanks Gargi

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Work should be first priority

idea posted by Gurpreet Singh Team Associate, BA Continuum Solutions
Well first of all why to leave office early..if it is a genuine problem or urgency then it is okay..complete the minimum time required for work and leave else work should be our top priority we get paid for what we do, and what we do is linked with how company performs. In india no doubt we are one of the best work force of the world but still growing tendency of escaping from work is increasing day by day. in this case we must learn from work style of Japanese people who know that if they work their country will grow..they think in broader prospective then us....while our thinking is always limited to ourselves only.
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Depends upon boss....

idea posted by Arinjay Kumar Administration, BSF
Depends upon boss...
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Work efficiency and time management

idea posted by Neeraj Bhandari Tour Management Executive, Divine Travel Connextions
First of all I am not totally agree with Gargi because its a human psychology to spend more than two hours in chit chatting as its necessary for every to regain their official environment in their mind, to recollect yesterdays task by discussing with their colleagues whether in personal or formal way, it depends upon the chemistry between two or more of them. Spend time for leisure during office timing is necessary for every one as it refresh mind to work more efficiently in less time period. One should note that if he/she wants to take leave early before ending up of office timing, then they have should have good chemistry with their senior or upper management just after them (who permits them for little permissions). In human life the main thing which is always take him on right path is time management, fulfilling of task in time or before the time has always carry positive response for them. So the most important is to finish your efficiently in less time period.
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Type of job one holds

idea posted by Mathew Cherian Research Associate/Analyst, Western Michigan University
Jobs are classified as 'paper pushing' and 'decision making'. If one is endowed with either it depends on when one finishes the job. Then also job is not a thing you do to just satisfy someone it is done for further growth and responsibilities depending on ones skills and professionalism endowed. One cannot do it like it is an 8 to 5 activity done to keep you safe. R and D jobs one can leave early many days though clerical and management jobs require one to 'carry home' work. Recreation if one can disassociate from work is acceptable then work is something one cannot disassociate from when one empowers oneself deep into it. Thanks.
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Delegate and be organised...

idea posted by Jaygopal Raghavan Marketing Manager, Landmark Group
Dont take all the work on your head, learn to delegate work to your subordinates and make them responsible for finishing them on time. If your subordinates are not good, recruit better employees instead of taking the work load on your head. But for all this start your day by oranising your work and delegating at the begining of the day itself.
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Manage Your Boss

idea posted by Santosh Sinha Freelance Journalist, Free Lancer
Apart from the suggestion given by Gargi, you must able to convince your boss to avoid series of meeting in a day. Moreover mobile should be either switched off or kept at silent during meeting so that meeting should end on time and others time should not be wasted. apart from this you may plan not to attend unwanted calls during the day and sechdule a time to call back all the missed calls so that job in progess should be completed in time. Just try and revert. S K SINHA JAI HIND
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Primarily Work Smart

idea posted by Jagdeep Kaur (vp@hrglobeconsulting.com) Vice President, HR Globe Consulting
Most of us, work hard and smart to be noticed at work or to go early from work but more than working hard, one needs to learn working smart as then one will be able to prioritize one's work and be able to set deadlines for such work.This will help create work life balance and trust me ...those who have ample free time at their discretion after finishing their works, are actually the most productive people.
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Organize your TO DO list of office and house

idea posted by N.Sreenivasa Rao Construction Management, Central Public Works Department

You have to maintain a balance in office life and as well as in family life.Otherwise we will end up in pathetic at one jucture of life. By the time we understand the damage in personnel life we will reach a fatigue end of job life. So better awake and Organze a balanced life ,so that you will live healthy and lead a happy family life along with successful job life. Work will never end.Avoid wasting the time during office hours so that you can justify both.

N.S.Rao,CPWD

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idea posted by neha singh Content Editor, Avestia Corp
If ur passioante about ur work, ull never want to leave office forever!!!y leave early???
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