During the course of a day, employee Jennifer Anniston (an accountant) constantl

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During the course of a day, employee Jennifer Anniston (an accountant) constantly opens and updates her Facebook account on her iPad, checks on her lottery ticket numbers, calls and talks to her mother for 30 minutes, her children for 10 minutes (she makes sure they get home safely every day) and her husband every afternoon for 15 minutes to see if he or she is making dinner that night. Her employer, Billybob Thornblower listens to each of her phone calls to make sure that she isn't talking to his wife, one of her good friends, about his actions at work. (He is always hitting on the salesgirls, in a good-natured way.) Billybob ends up being fired for sexual harassment when one of the salesgirls complains. Jennifer's new boss, Tracy, notices that Jennifer is doing a ton of personal work during company time. There is no written policy about this issue at the company. To date, Jennifer's work is exemplary. She always has everything done in a timely manner and her books balance at the end of every day. What should Tracy do about this situation?

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This is a situation which cosniders 3 important aspects of HR

Tracy as a seasone HR sshould first addreess each issues one by one

1.Eaves dropping on your colleague 's phone calls is a breach of privacy

2.Working on too many personal errands while at work is a wrong work ethics

3.Evalutae the impact of working on personal work while on work, in this case there seems to be no impact on work .

Tracy as a first step should analyse ,if the pattern of work followed by Jennifer is only confine to her or other employees to understand if the work set up is so hectic that it make employee resort to such ways of working or is it only one employee in this case --Jennifer

based on her understanding of scenario including all , she should come up with policies which can define flexi time and also lays down guidelines on usage of time for personal errands while on work

she should also address privacy and foster a culture where colleagues respect each other and discourage behaviours like eves dropping .

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