Human Resource Policies - Dealing With Millennials' Poor Attendance and Tardiness

There is a bit of thunder on the horizon as companiesthe present period.
cut their workforce and you can expect restaurants,You can imagine the staffing problems this causes
retail and entertainment industries to be hit as hard aswhen employees do not show up for work. In a retail
small businesses, manufacturing, airlines and theenvironment it severely effects same store sales and
financial sector.produces shoplifting opportunities for criminals.
It is a "Chain Saw AL" moment indeed and theHuman Resource personnel must deal with this, still
corporate horror movie is unfolding as we speak. Jobs,many human resource personnel are millennials
Jobs, Jobs say the 2008 Presidential Candidates andthemselves and seem to relate with tardy or no-show
yet, "will the results of this election change anything?"employees. Nevertheless, your company must be
ask Wall Street Labor Sector Analysts.tough and consistent in your policies.
Still, some ask how many of these people that haveEmployees must show up and they must show up on
jobs, especially the millennial generation, that actuallytime, otherwise you are not really running a business. If
deserve them. Did you know it's quite common foryour company allows this behavior, other employees
millennial generation employees to not show up forwill follow and you will lose control and discipline.
work at all?This will affect your sales, loss prevention statistics,
It's true, and yet no baby boomer would ever expectcustomer service, stock price and brand name. So,
to keep their job if they showed up late each day orwise up human resource and make your policies
skipped work (played hooky) on a regular basis, butconsistent and strict when it comes to poor
that was a different time, a past period, today, it isattendance or employees showing up late for work.
more common than anyone could have expected in