Posted on 02/12/2018 4:26:24 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
EDISON - A recent survey has found that New Jersey residents show up late to work more often than employees in any other state.
The report by Mattress Clarity surveyed over 2,700 American employees about being late to work and found that the average New Jersey worker loses 7.9 minutes per week to lateness.
Mattress Clarity says that the lateness costs employers $122 per employee, per year in revenue – a total of $500 million.
New Jersey residents told News 12 New Jersey that there are several reasons that they were late to work. Some blamed late trains or heavy traffic.
(Excerpt) Read more at newjersey.news12.com ...
Gummit survey?
Fuggetaboutit!
Well, the solution is really simple. Late to work too often then the penalty is no job. Or,if you value being employed, start for work early and then arrive on time.
So leave the house earlier, nitwits. If I am less than 10 minutes early, I consider myself late.
A relatively large percentage of people from NJ commute to New York and Philadelphia for work using choke-point bridges or through tunnels. That may have something to do with it.
“So leave the house earlier, nitwits. If I am less than 10 minutes early, I consider myself late.”
So I was in the Army for 22 years. I said when I retired from that I wanted a job where I did not have to get up early and did not have to travel. I got part of that. I travel more than I want, but as far as getting up early, I am OK. They have a flex schedule with core hours. I have to be in from 09:00-15:00. I can add on the extra before or after. For me it is usually after. But my point is that as long as I put in my 8 hours and do good work, who cares when I come in. I do understand that can not work in every field, but I gotta say, it works for me.
If you were hired with an expectation of when your hours would be, then keep those hours.
Sounds simple but in reality not in the NY/Met area. We can quite honestly take public transportation planning 1.5 hours to spare and still be late thanks to tunnel and bridge accidents, lane closures or other road accidents. I agree. Planning goes a long way, but some days there’s just nothing you can do.
Is this on Amazon’s list of must have criteria?
Or is it something Amazon took for granted and overlooked?
I had a flat tire, there was an earthquake, a hurricane, a volcano - it WASN'T MY FAULT!!
Is there a correlation to the state’s tax rates?
How do other high-taxed states rate?
If you let every little thing distract you you'll never get your tire changed. ;^)
Not me! I’m retired.
“How do other high-taxed states rate?”
In the more laid back left coast states and particularly in the SoCal, LA area it’s not unusual to see workers already at happy hour by 4:30 PM. I worked at a help center once and frequently had to support their clients remotely when no one locally was around late in the day to offer assistance. Don’t know if they’ve come up with a survey for that region yet, but with the SoCal traffic I can imagine morning lateness likely is also an issue. Around here we do deal with heavy traffic in the morning and lateness because the region is so heavily congested, but we often stay late after hours to make up for it.
“New Jersey workers are the least punctual in the nation”
“You got a problem wit dat, buddy?”
I believe it is a combination of congestion in an ageing infrastructure and the fact that punitive taxes have chased away many of the people who show up on time (white people).
“Is there a correlation to the state’s tax rates?”
Yes, there is perfect correlation between this problem and the stupidity that abounds in New Jersey when it comes to electing people to public office. Most New Jerseyites are looking for government to provide them a free ride, but don’t really understand that their “free ride” isn’t really free at all.
Well, if you’re late getting to work, of course you need to leave early to make up for it. Can’t be late twice in the same day. :=)
I guess Hawaii is no longer in the nation, or was not included in the survey.
Yup. My uncle always said that if you’re not 15 minutes early, you’re late. We’re always early.
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