Personally speaking, it is fine to work overtime if you are paid. The mere fact is that we need to stick to our job responsibilities. If they are not indicated in our contracts, we do not need to do other tasks. Being busy is fine if we are productive and paid properly by our employers. As for me, both making money and spending time with my family are more important.
Would you agree to work extra hours if your boss asked you to?
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I don't think I Iike the overtime of a thing. It is not just work that someone has to do in a given day. There are other things that needs to be done as a person. I have never accepted to work overtime.
It has to be that I am assured of some kind of incentive before I do even an extra minute. There has to be a motivation for doing overtime work.
I do not mind working overtime occasionally to get my job done. However, if my boss requests me to work extra hours for a long period of time, I have to think about it. Work life balance is important to me.
I try to make sure that I get my work done within the ambits of the time allocatef for active work. When I leave the office, I don't do any official work. It is time for me to face other aspects of my life.
This is the very reason you need to study and understand the job contract you are given before you accept and sign. Ask for overtime conditions before you accept an offer. I understand that most people are always desperate to get a job though.
Some good organizations meticulously pay overtime benefits to their staff. And it is a source of motivation to Staff to do more because they can get compensation.
The most important thing is for me to be paid for the extra work that I'm doing because that is the only justification for me to agree to work extra hours.
That's right, I agree with you. I'm fine with overtime if there's a clear extra charge, otherwise I'd rather politely decline and find excuses to get home on time.
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I do think that it is our right to turned our boss down. Besides, there are other ways to do this. Of course, I do not want to bring the extra tasks to be done at home. It is an abusive request for the top management to ask for it.
If an employee takes part of a work assignment home to do at home, does he or she get paid extra or is it counted as overtime? I've never experienced anything like this so I don't know.
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I learned that in Canada, we can file a formal case against our employers if they insist to do other tasks, which are not included in the contract. It is a venue for us to voice out our rights about this concern.
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As much as possible, I would not want to be in such a situation. I do not want to work in a pro bono. It is not in my vocabulary to be in this way. I will just let others do who wanted to take advantage of it.
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Here the workers are paid for the overtime but we (the staff) work extra hours even if it's not in our contract or even if we are not paid for the overtime. Here most industries have such a trend. You can say it's exploitation but we have to do it because we require the job.