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In the home office to the hairdresser? Calendar entry is angered by the managing director
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A boss finds a hairdressing appointment in the calendar of his employee – in the home office. The entrepreneur rages and sees refusal to work. Correctly?
“9:15 Pm Make Hairdresser”-what looks like a very harmless appointment in the calendar, triggered a heated internet debate last week. Because: The appointment fell into the working hours of an employee of a Hamburg IT company and massively annoyed her boss.
Kai-Gunnar Hering, Managing Director of the company, took air with great announcement about the employee. According to Hering, this works full -time in the home office – not in the office.
But that is not the jumping point for the entrepreneur. But said calendar entry. He added a photo of it to his post, surrounded by red and with the letters “WTF”, in German about “what the devil”.
“I’m angry!” Writes herring. “We finally have to stop pretending that home office had ever been a good idea.” Again and again he finds that home office “is often more illusion than reality in practice”.
Entrepreneurs to Home Office: “Refusal to work in beautiful packaging”
The problem is that you cannot control when and how the work that should actually be done during this time will be made up for. That would have a negative impact on the results.
“I get up early, I pull through, and I make sure that things are going – for our customers, for our team, for the company. And then there are people who use the home office as a free ticket to use appointments into working hours To put and work as little as possible, “says Hering.
“Sorry, but that’s not a home office. This is refusal to work in beautiful packaging,” he argues. This destroys trust, success and productivity. In the home office to work means taking responsibility, says Hering.
His conclusion is therefore: HomeOffice only if the employees are really disciplined and demonstrate this over a longer period of time.
Entrepreneur receives a lot of contradiction – also by Carsten Maschmeyer
Almost 9,000 people have already reacted to the contribution, almost 5000 comments were written under the LinkedIn post. Some votes herring: “Not many can handle the ‘Home Office’ freedom.”
But quite a few users contradict the IT entrepreneur.
“The current situation has less to do with HomeOffice, but rather that the management and control of your team apparently does not work optimally,” writes a user and recommends concentrating more on clear expectations and target agreements.
Another writes: “As a good boss, they measure work performance and not working hours.” Another other believes that the problem is not in the home office or in the discipline of the employees, but in the leadership.
Visit to the hairdresser or see porn: What can I do in the home office?

Basically, the following also applies in the home office: Private must be done outside of working hours. But there are gray areas, as the following points show …
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The entrepreneur, investor and TV lion Carsten Maschmeyer (“The Löhen cave”) also shared the contribution by Kai-Gunnar Hering-and found clear words: “Your employees are not children!”
Private appointments such as a visit to the hairdresser would be made possible by home office ,. Work and private life could be reconciled better.
“Whether you catch up on the work later in the evening, on weekends or on another day does not matter. It is important what comes out in the end,” argues Maschmeyer.
“If you don’t trust your employee, you shouldn’t have hired. Trust is the basis of every good cooperation. So, dear Mr. Hering: When do we finally stop working time with work?”
Private appointments are actually not allowed
But what does labor law actually say?
Paragraph 2 of the Defines working hours as the time from the beginning to the end of work without the breaks. And regulates the employer’s right to issue instructions. It says: “The employer can determine the content, place and time of work performance at a reasonable discretion (…). This also applies to the order and behavior of employees in the company.”
The employer therefore has the right to determine working hours and working conditions. Any use of working hours for other than the purposes required by the employer can be a violation of the employment contract obligations. As a rule, private dates are not allowed and must be agreed with the manager.
However, the discussion under the LinkedIn contribution by Kai-Gunnar Hering shows that there are now many who no longer consider this to be contemporary and prefer to rely on results instead of the cake clock.
But the question remains: What is more important: what the employees achieve – or how many hours they spend at work?
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