The article mentions now hours for salaried folks will need to be tracked. I’ve never been on a job where hours were not tracked and in IT, they are meticulously tracked for billing and such. Is that everyone else’s experience as well?
>I’ve never been on a job where hours were not tracked and in IT
In 30+ years I’ve never see IT hours tracked for employees doing work for the hiring company (e.g. not working on a contract for another company). They are tracked when working on contracts for another company. If it’s contract work they are tracked carefully.
As an independent contractor now I benefit from these rules/regulations. The harder it is to hire (and fire) a full-time employee the more likely I get the work for a lot more than an employee’s salary. And being independent I don’t have someone taking 20-50% of that. Between the government and the attitude of many recent college grads it’s a good time to be an independent IT contractor. Most grads are good but there’s still a good risk that you get a poor attitude or lucky to have 25 hours of actual work when they are “in the office” for 40 hours a week. And even the best grads have 5-10 hours a week of internet, personal calls, lunch, etc. And many of them “know more” than the experts at their job and the business and the business doesn’t get what it’s wants/needs.
If your work is billed to clients.
I had to start punching a clock again a few months back.
Haven’t done that for 25 years.