Acting Human

Nowadays it is the custom that employees have to do unpaid overtime hours. One of the main reasons for it is the fear of losing the job. Of course there are plenty of companies which pay the overtime or at least other benefits such as compensatory time off.

But not only the missing payment for overtime hours are a problem for employees. Also emotional stress lets the work results suffer. An unmotivated employee doesn’t perform the same like a motivated does.

Unpaid overtime and the resulting stress from it can be seen associated with each other. If an employee regularly needs to work overtime and doesn’t get it paid, the company especially the human resource department needs to figure out what the causes are.

One main reason might be the fear of losing the job if everybody else also works so long. Another reason might lie within the fact the worker is just slower thn others. Then it is normally up to him to catch up with his work. Here the human resource department should check out if the worker is just slow or his work load is too high for one person and for that he cannot meet his goals.

Upcoming overtime might also depend on the economic situation. If employees need to work longer because of a positive economic situation it should be natural that the company takes care of a fair compensation. That might by individual from company to company. For some companies the paying of the overtime might be useful while for companies with seasonal products the compensatory time off might be more useful. On the other side it also depends on the personal situation of an employee: does he has family and needs extra money or extra time, is it a single person who wants some extra time for traveling or is he more interested in spending his money in new goods and so on.

After all overtime means more stress for an employee especially emotional. After all it is a loss of his free time which every person needs to regenerate to get new motivation, to relax, to be creative again and so on. Overtime normally means stress. Stress because the work is not and the boss might get angry about it. Stress because the employees are afraid of their job every day and cannot take care of the family and pay the bills. And stress again leads to mistakes and a poor job performance what probably shouldn’t be in the interest of any company after all.

The main way of posting job advertisements used to be in newspapers. But nowadays the internet offers new possibilities for gaining new employees. Meanwhile job portals are getting more important than the classical newspaper job advertisement.

But why are job advertisements in newspaper are still so successful? Newspapers reach another target group than the internet. A printed job advertisement might reach people who are actually not looking for a new job. The advertisement reaches the attention of the reader who might be interested in it. That explains in turn the costs of insert an job advertisement.

Job advertisements in the internet however reach another special target group. Job portals are normally visited by people who actively search for a new job. For a company it means that they might miss to reach an important target group. But looking on the financial site the posting of a job is much cheaper. Furthermore online job advertisements contain much more information. A printed one needs to be reduced to the most important facts. Online however a company can provide a huge amount of information. Simple by adding a company link the interested person can gain much more information about the company.

More information can be an advantage or disadvantage. On one site interested parties can win plenty of information to see if the company fits their interests and provides a wished working atmosphere. On the other site it might lead to the fact that interested parties are overwhelmed by the amount of information and doesn’t want to apply anymore. That might mean the loose of a potential employee for the company.

After all a company needs to figure out their own needs and then decide which way might lead to the wished result. Other ways might also be relevant like announcing a job in the radio or just winning new employees through the word-of-mouth effect. Especially the last opportunity might be quite efficient in regard to costs and the wished result.