Lead and Led

Generation Y and their resigning habits

Recently, I have not been happy concerncing my work environment: The work load and interactions with my superiors. So I resigned, without a job offer already at hand. I tried beforehand to explain my reasoning, however, without a future job offer, for the old generation’s boss this looked more like blackmailing and bluffing. Thus, let us analyse the mindset of generaion Y a bit.

EU ruled: Employers are forced tracking working time

We work to earn money, so we change time for money. In most small and medium companies it is not common tracking working time. I have seen many times what happens when people work and do not track their times. They accumulate a non-neglectable amount of overtime and this is never paid back by holidays or moneywiese. So, we can see here a benefit. But what disadvantages might occur?

Value your employees by investing

Being the team or group leader is sometimes a bit narrowing the view concerning the needs of your employees. You will be faced with the budget. The budget is limiting your possibilities for solving the every days work issues. Whether your budget has a volume of 1 million bugs or 1000, you still have to think first about the needs of your team in my opinion.