NPPS Leadership Team

["Laycock, Paul" <laycock AT bnl.gov>]

> On 14 Feb 2022, at 19:33, Brett Viren <bv AT bnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> "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".

        You missed my point, if everyone works Core hours then Lino, me and 
the whole CERN contingent no longer have overlapping work hours with BNL Core 
hours colleagues.  The time zone-dependent definition of Core hours is sane, 
but I don’t think it would work for the NPPS group.

>> 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.

        Well I speed read :)

> 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.

        Very welcome, and I wouldn’t throw this document out in its entirety !

> -Brett.