I once worked in an office building that also housed the IRS. If you think government health initiatives aimed at the general population are overbearing, the ones directed at its own employees are worse.
Still, the IRS staffers gladly accepted the advice to walk laps around the parking lot during the lunch hour in order to promote fitness. The only trouble was that most of them continued to amble around well past the one hour mark and many never returned inside the building. They also tended to take long stationary breaks from the walk and many enjoyed more than one cigarette - I’m guessing that wasn’t part of the directive.
Oh, and don’t dream of being in front of the doors at 3:30 quitting time. This was well before 9/11 but they all flew out of the building like someone had phoned in a bomb threat.
“Oh, and don’t dream of being in front of the doors at 3:30 quitting time.”
So, considering their 1 hour lunch break to trip the light fantastic around the parking lot, they started work at 0630 to get in an honest 8 hours work plus the hour for lunch?
Of course they did!!!
When they work the increasingly frequent 9/80 schedule where they get ever-other-Friday off and only work 1/2 day on the Friday they are supposed to be at the office... they somehow manage not to show up at all for the Friday they are supposed to work.
In case you have never heard of the 9/80 way of life it is supposed to be eight 9 hour days + one 8 hour day plus one day off each two weeks that somehow turns into what looks more like eight 8 hour days per two weeks for most people.
I think this whole 9/80 thing foolish since 8 hours a day came about as a result of that being when most people begin to lose efficiency and need some rest. Anybody that tells you they regularly work 12 hours a day (save for rotation workers) day after day after day is superhuman or taking economies with the truth.
We work 12 hour shifts on the rigs and come home every 21 / 28 days and need to. We work 12 hour days in the office when we rotate 28 days on and 28 days off when commuting overseas. You’re well ready to get on the plane and come home to rest after that shift. Stateside the days in the office for operations people tend towards 10 hours a day or more and that is enough.