Survey: older employees would be more likely to never arrive late at work

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Saturday, October 14 2017 15:00

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TORONTO | older workers are more likely than younger people to never come to work late, according to a recent survey conducted by investment firm staff, Accountemps.

According to the survey of 400 office workers canadians aged 18 years and older, 55 % of workers 55 and over is never late to work, compared with 45 % of those aged 35 to 54 years of age. Among the younger respondents, those 18 to 34 years of age, only 28 % said they never arrive late.

Overall, 56 % of respondents to the survey have confessed that they sometimes arrive late to work. Four percent indicated that they were late every day.

In addition, when questioned about the negative aspects of the delays, 33 % of respondents said that their productivity had suffered from the delay of a colleague.

Another survey by Accountemps on the same subject, led this time from 270 managers of finance companies, has been allowed to learn that they do not see necessarily the delays of employees in the right eye. Only 2 % of chief financial officers who responded to the survey said they have no problem with the delays to the extent that productivity is not affected. The majority, 65 %, have said accept occasional delays as long as it doesn’t become a habit.

The rest of the directors, or 32 %, believe that employees must arrive on time so that others can rely on them in the schedules.

“Punctuality is often perceived as a reflection of the ethics of an employee in the workplace, according to Dianne Hunnam-Jones, canadian president of Accountemps. Arrive regularly at work late can give the impression that you are disinterested, and create a doubt in the mind of your colleagues and employers about your commitment.”