If your people can work for 4-5 hours a day and spend the rest of the time online, look at your own systems. Why is that allowed to happen? Are your people allowed to work on stuff they like? Who tells them what to work on? How are they held accountable?

If you have a confrontational relationship with your people, they’re going to try and get away with as much as they can. If they can help chart their course, they’ll run through walls to get stuff done *because they want to*.

Rules and regulations encourage learned helplessness and discourage individual thinking. If you want a business that maintains status quo or worse, overdoing it on the R&R is the way to go.

And if you have employees stealing from you, no amount of rules & regs will help that… you’ve got to get rid of them asap!

Thanks for the comment.

Most employees only work about 4 or 5 hours a day, the rest is spent online or who knows, yet they feel untrusted and under paid. What about the employee theft issues most business also have to deal.

I think most business know which employees are honest and have good work ethics and which ones the business feel waste time, poor work ethics and need to be supervised.

Without some rules and regulations designed to prevent employees from screwing up or wasting company time and resources most companies would not be as profitable and would result in hiring less employees and paying less for the employees.