Is the problem with Employee or Employer?

"Are you coming from office now?", inquired one of my team member Mr.Krissh(proxy name).

"Yeah", i nodded and continued with my dinner.

"Its 11:00PM yaar. Is there so much of work?", asked Mr.Krissh after a short pause.

I smiled and replied, "You are new to the project, you will come to know after few more days. You will also be late".

"Don't even expect that", said Mr.Krissh.

I looked up at him by the blunt reply, i said, "What??"

"What ever it is, i will never work after 6:00PM. If you need an extra hour i will start an hour early at office. But after 6:00PM, i have my personal life to take care", replied Mr.Krissh without any pause.

"I too wouldn't insist as long as you complete the assigned work on time", i replied.

Infact, the frank and blunt answer put me in into thinking.

Cut.....

I know, Mr.Krissh is true and correct in every sense. Its not Krissh alone who feels so, every body wants to say that. I'm no exception in that every body. I too want to be like that...i too want to say that...i too want to yell "No work after office hours 9 to 6"!!! Analysing the practicality of the concept...

I agree that at the end of the day, everybody is working hard to have a peaceful and pleasant time with family or have some personal life. But before we demand "No work after office hours of 9 to 6", we need to introspect whether are we correct from our side. Question yourselves, Are we correctly utilizing office hours for the work solely without scraps/FBs/chats/browsing etc.? I hope >90% of employees in india answer is "NO". Then in that case, can we argue/complain on the extended hours of work due to lack in productivity? The reasons of this behavior may be the result of many previous bad experiences thus teaching gud lessons. But still, ppl in the top level management call it "ATTITUDE PROBLEM".

Employers or managers also need to put in some thoughts here. An employee who joined the organization with most aspiring thoughts and motive to work has turned out hostile. There is something which is disorienting the employee or something that is breaking the integrity of the employee. If that root cause of the issue is fixed, then no more such problems will crop up in future. Let me remind you of the idiom, "A horse can be taken to the lake, but can't be made to drink water".