Yes, Your Coworkers Hate It When You're Late
When you’re late, it enrages your coworkers and decreases everyone productivity. Is there any way you can get back into your colleagues’ good graces? According to Inc. magazine, “Despite how common it is to be late, people aren't rolling with it. The people waiting for you are not happy. Not happy at all.”
So instead of begging for forgiveness, why don’t you A/B test some different strategies for getting to the office on time? Lifehacker offers some suggestions for how you can shame yourself into being on time. For example, they suggest never explaining why you’re late. “ If you don’t allow yourself to make excuses, you’ll stop letting yourself off the hook.” You know that your colleagues can Google your route to work and see that you didn’t get stuck in a construction delay, right? If you don’t really care what your coworkers think, then maybe try calculating what being late costs you in real dollars. “If you’re paid hourly, find out how much less you make when you clock in late.” Or think about how much income you’ll lose when your coworkers lobby your boss to fire you. (Just kidding.)
Ultimately, you really need to figure yourself out and get to the bottom of why you don’t care about making everyone else operate around your morning hangover or your desire to do one more lap around the track. Maybe you’re just really bad at anticipating how long it will take you to shower and get dressed? According to ScienceAlert.com, “Research has shown that people on average underestimate how long a task will take to complete by a significant 40%.” The other possibility is that you have a Type B personality, according to Bustle. A study published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology suggests that Type Bs tend to experience the passing of time less urgently than their counterparts. When asked to estimate when a stopwatch hit the 60-second mark, Bs piped up at 77 seconds while Type As dinged the timer at 58 seconds. Clearly Type Bs are in no rush to do anything particularly fast.
Article by Riki Markowitz