NPPS Leadership Team

[Brett Viren <bv AT bnl.gov>]

"Laycock, Paul via Phys-npps-mgmt-l" <phys-npps-mgmt-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
writes:

> I assume the core working hours idea is trying to accommodate parental
> responsibilities.  Regardless, I hope you don’t expect me to regularly
> attend 3pm *ET* meetings :). Core hours could potentially exacerbate
> the 6 hour time difference, 10 am ET is 4pm CET and it’s not like
> there isn’t already contention for those meeting times.

I think this is addressed:

  An employee must work the core hours of 10 am - 3 pm of the time zone
  of the assigned primary work location, M-F. The balance of the
  eight-hour day is worked before and/or after those hours.

In your/Lino's cases, the whole point is to be at CERN so I expect CERN
should be considered the "primary work location".

> Somehow the need to retain good communication needs to be added to
> avoid creating an expectation that the supervisor will have to
> shatter, same for the compressed variant (you can’t take Fridays off
> because that’s the day of the group meeting).  I see the benefit of
> formalising non-standard hours for clarity (maybe they could be made
> known to everyone in the group), but I don’t see how to do better than
> discussing this on a case by case basis with the supervisor.

"Communication" and "case-by-case" are both elements in the doc.

All-in-all it seems rather reasonable to me.  It reads as "permissive
with assurances" rather than "only if proof of need".

There's even this surprise (to me):

  6. Telework and Remote Work arrangements may be used as a recruitment
     tool to attract talent from a more diverse pool, so long as the
     requirements for the arrangement can be met.

-Brett.

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