Answer to Question #241271 in Management for ABC

Question

The pandemic has forced us to switch our homes to office spaces. Besides the advantage of comfortably working from home, this setup has posed a serious inconvenience of blurring the boundaries between working hours and personal time. Mails, phones, and meeting at odd hours have devoured the personal boundaries. Like so many other people, Amaan is also a victim to this situation. Most of his time is spent Most of his time is spent conducing meeting, explaining tasks to his team member, coordinating with the management, and sometimes even communicating with the overseas clients which usually occurs at odd hours usually after midnight. This has been a continued practice for more than a year and a half. Amaan has decided to write a letter to the senior management to persuade them to make strict guidelines for employees, regarding the office communication, which should occur between 9am and 7pm unless there is an emergency/ international caller to attend to. As Amaan, write a persuasive letter to the management.

Answer 1

Amaan Shah,

General Manager,

Lebanon General Imports and Exports Co. Ltd,

P.O.Box 3988-00200,

Beirut - Lebanon.

 

24Th September 2021.

 

The Management,

 

RE:WORKING HOUR

I write as per the above subject. Ever since the start of the covid 19 pandemic we have been forced to make drastic measures to cumb the disease with one of them.being working from home. I express my gratitude to the IT department for enabling us to work remotely conviniently without having to stop the work or worse retrench or make some positions redundant.

This new way of doing things has come with it's fair share of challenges with one of them being the lack of differentiation between office and non office hours.Like for my case you find that I am spending most of my free time attending meetings especially with overseas clients in odd hours and this has been the norm for over an year now.

This has led me to writting this letter to persuade the management to enforce the previous working hours from 9am to 7pm to ensure that the employees get enough rest and do not suffer from burnout as well as spend with their families and also run their personal errands. Hoping that my plea will be enforced.

 

Kind Regards

A.S

Amaan Shah