Saw Something Northrop Grumman Does NOT Know?

I saw this on-line that runs counter to everything that Northrop Grumman management believes it knows:

Study: Employees with flexible hours work harder, are more satisfied

Northrop Grumman management somehow just knows that the 9/80 work schedule program is favored by the majority of those employees who vote for it as long as it is convenient for management.

Northrop Grumman management's idea of flexibility is the alternating Friday off.

You don't get to choose whether or not you do 9/80 work schedule. Once a site goes onto 9/80, EVERYBODY at that site works 9/80.

Where's the flexibility? As long as you can get your eighty hours logged onto L/ANS every two weeks, Northrop Grumman management does not care when you come into work - weekends, after hours, etc.

However, the manager will ask that each employee publish their nominal hours - when they come in, when they leave, and when they take their lunch break. This is hard to do if they want to be within California labor laws (there's no federal law requiring that you are given a lunch break.)

SUPPOSEDLY by California law the employee is REQUIRED to take a lunch break (seven-tenths of an hour = 42 minutes?) but many employees will choose to "work through lunch" and not spend as long of a day at Northrop Grumman.

For the working mothers and fathers at Northrop Grumman, 9/80 presents a logistical challenge in getting the little ones to and from child care within the necessary time limits imposed by the various caregivers.

For those folks driving long distances to and from work, a commute time of two to six hours on top of the nominal nine hour workday makes for a very long day.

Nothing but the best for the Northrop Grumman employee.


Disclaimer: SORRY - This is only what I know from my point of view. No lies, just what I see as the truth.