How much personal work at office is OK ?

I was reading a report which says that an average worker spends at a minimum 2 hours a day at work doing personal work. This could be either doing day trading , or house hunting or trying to buy something etc etc. Managers have a dilemma ? how much of this should be allowed and what should be done ...

I have a few pointers around this ...

involve your teams and employees on what is reasonable and what is not ... once you do this .. you set guidelines and you also elicit tacit disapproval on what is not reasonable. You will find more cooperation around what you believe is not reasonable time spent at work doing personal stuff

having regular dialogues and updating the guidelines and reminding them is also a key aspect for sustaining the message

sometimes, when employees dont follow the guidelines, disciplining them is a key part of the whole message as well.

the key message should be ... keep your personal work at work time to a minimal amount ....

hope this helps ... have a great week ahead ....

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