my story!

The staff in our organization needed to sign in and out everyday, by just writing down the time on the attendance book. Sure, you can expect that nobody would claim themselves they were late. However, the situation changed after an electronic check-in system had been installed in our work place.

The senior level of the staff claimed that the electronic check-in system is to reduce the administrative work time. However, the systems will simply and direct treat you as “lateness” after 1 minute of the official turn-up time! Moreover, The clerk posted out the record of the attendance of the staff on the notice board and the number of times of lateness are clearly shown as well.

It actually brought a trouble among staff that, the staff were stressful as their attendance record were published and the staff had a feeling that there were an offence to the professionalism. The staff were then now saying “did you check in yet?” instead of “good morning”.

It also brought a strange phenomenon that the staff rather report they had forgotten to bring the ID card instead of checking in late.

Work done by all group members: Lok, Dilys, Kyle, Cherrie, Timothy