Frances, We do not have anyone working a custom shift as described by TJ in this note.
Everyone in my team is required to be here at 8 AM. Instead of a shifted schedule, the my team has standing meetings times with Asia manufacturing sites typically from 4 PM to 6 PM San Jose time to efficiently meet with the Asia team at the start of their day to communicate and work together in times that overlap with the location’s standard work day. If an urgent problem or project requires resources in San Jose to work late into the night with resources in Asia, they get prior approval from their manager to arrive late the next day.
Jeff
We also have a few custom deals with critical individuals. Everybody else starts work at 8am, including me. As a matter of fact, I deliberately schedule important, highly visible meetings every day at 8am so that I can “show the flag” by supporting our company policy.
About every three or four years, we get sloppy about the 8am policy, which becomes obvious to me as I drive into a partially filled parking lot just before 8am and later observe a large influx of vehicles by 9:00am. At that point, I write a memo to employees reminding them that if they do not have an HR-certified deal, they are expected to be at work by 8am (the last memo I wrote is attached). In addition, whenever I visit a Cypress site, I try to arrive before 8am and observe if that site is also following the policy.
In summary, we have had an effective 8am policy for 32 years. I firmly believe it is the most productive policy. And, I am not willing to abandon that policy.
When I convinced Dan McCranie to return to Cypress to clean up our salesforce, Dan noted that his secretary arrived at about 9:00am and asked if we had changed our 8am policy. She said she had a “deal” to do so. The fact was that she did not have a special deal, because employees who want to work special hours need to download a form from the web and get both management and HR approval for special hours.
Dan McCranie, who typically arrives at work at 6:30am, was spending his first two and a half hours at work without the secretary who was being paid to but did not help him. When he asked for HR help on the problem, they found out that the problem was a school drop-off. When HR asked if there was any other way to get that done, the secretary said that her husband had to be at work at 8am (welding) and that she therefore had to drop off the children. So the bottom line of this interaction was that in that family the welding company took priority over Cypress and we were supposed to create a job with non-standard hours to subsidize the welding company.
Many stories about why people “can’t” come to work at 8am are of that ilk–a desire to come to work late, back-justified by a “critical” chore or activity deliberately substituted into the 8am-9am period.
Even cursory reflection on this issue shows that we either have to hold the policy with a hard line as we merge companies, or give it up all together. How could we bring in three or four new employees into a group that were given special privilege, and still expect the Cypress employees in that group to maintain the 8am policy? Since managers are also expected to be leaders, how could we bring in a new manager to run a group of Cypress employees that adhere to the 8am policy when the manager does not?
Our analysis shows that our combined company needs to have 1,688 fewer employees than the current sum of employees of the two companies. If an average worker would choose to leave the opportunity our combined company offers over an 8am-vs.-9am issue, that employee is clearly not well connected to either company and is best part of the 1,688 departures. (And here I’m talking about the average case, not the 5% corner cases often used to argue unreasonably against the broad policy).
I won’t embarrass myself or the readers of this memo by going through the standard excuses for late arrival. As I said earlier, if we have people that truly work on a different shift from the standard day shift, we will create appropriate work hours for them, either on a collective or individual basis.
Given that 95% of all workers can meet the 8am policy , that should set policy. Then, all we need to do is to consider the “special cases,” a few very important people with important skills who will not start work at 8am for some good or bad reason. I am prepared to make some individual exceptions (think single digits) for these cases. However, I would have difficulty–other than for an absolutely exceptional person–allowing someone to manage a significant group while choosing to observe different work hours than the group they are supposed to be leading. And, given the choice of two viable employees to join the middle tier of the new company, I would choose the employee who can work standard hours, rather than having to create a special deal. (Dan McCranie’s new secretary starts at 7:30am.)
Any deal for non-standard work hours must go through an HR process. I’ve asked Carmine Renzulli to gather information on what special shifts and special deals we may need, so that we can deal with this problem in one fell swoop.
One final note, when I received the answer on 8am exceptions in operations from Jeff McNeil, I sent a similar query about design to Andy Wright.
…We sometimes create special hours for designers who must interface with Asian or European design centers [AZW fact-check].
From: Andrew Wright
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 2:04 PM
To: Frances Miguel
Cc: Shirlene Arellano
Subject: RE: Fact-Check for TJR please.. need answer by 3pm today
Frances,
After asking around there has been only one example of this that we can find in San Jose. The engineer in question is a Sr individual technical contributor working fulltime everyday with China for several quarters on the actual coding development of RTL for a block.
This is very rare and the balkanization was allowed to enable training the engineer and improving the quality of our serial interfaces. The HR 8am waiver was signed for 1yr.
By general practice we expect people interfacing to Asia to take calls from home at 8pm to about 9:30 or 10pm as necessary and be at work on time. Interfacing to Europe is easy with 8am start.
We have worked to solve the problem by debalkanizing the design groups and their charters and reducing the need for this interface to make it tolerable for engineers.
There is no other example we could recall or find with this as a reason for the 8am waiver.
Thx,
Andy
It appears that Cypress people have learned to use the 8am policy almost without exception, despite our process to create exceptions. I would consider some one-year group exceptions, but–beware–that could create some animosity in groups that have “favored” employees. Arriving at 8am is a cultural trait
Frances, We do not have anyone working a custom shift as described by TJ in this note.
Everyone in my team is required to be here at 8 AM. Instead of a shifted schedule, the my team has standing meetings times with Asia manufacturing sites typically from 4 PM to 6 PM San Jose time to efficiently meet with the Asia team at the start of their day to communicate and work together in times that overlap with the location’s standard work day. If an urgent problem or project requires resources in San Jose to work late into the night with resources in Asia, they get prior approval from their manager to arrive late the next day.
Jeff
We also have a few custom deals with critical individuals. Everybody else starts work at 8am, including me. As a matter of fact, I deliberately schedule important, highly visible meetings every day at 8am so that I can “show the flag” by supporting our company policy.
About every three or four years, we get sloppy about the 8am policy, which becomes obvious to me as I drive into a partially filled parking lot just before 8am and later observe a large influx of vehicles by 9:00am. At that point, I write a memo to employees reminding them that if they do not have an HR-certified deal, they are expected to be at work by 8am (the last memo I wrote is attached). In addition, whenever I visit a Cypress site, I try to arrive before 8am and observe if that site is also following the policy.
In summary, we have had an effective 8am policy for 32 years. I firmly believe it is the most productive policy. And, I am not willing to abandon that policy.
When I convinced Dan McCranie to return to Cypress to clean up our salesforce, Dan noted that his secretary arrived at about 9:00am and asked if we had changed our 8am policy. She said she had a “deal” to do so. The fact was that she did not have a special deal, because employees who want to work special hours need to download a form from the web and get both management and HR approval for special hours.
Dan McCranie, who typically arrives at work at 6:30am, was spending his first two and a half hours at work without the secretary who was being paid to but did not help him. When he asked for HR help on the problem, they found out that the problem was a school drop-off. When HR asked if there was any other way to get that done, the secretary said that her husband had to be at work at 8am (welding) and that she therefore had to drop off the children. So the bottom line of this interaction was that in that family the welding company took priority over Cypress and we were supposed to create a job with non-standard hours to subsidize the welding company.
Many stories about why people “can’t” come to work at 8am are of that ilk–a desire to come to work late, back-justified by a “critical” chore or activity deliberately substituted into the 8am-9am period.
Even cursory reflection on this issue shows that we either have to hold the policy with a hard line as we merge companies, or give it up all together. How could we bring in three or four new employees into a group that were given special privilege, and still expect the Cypress employees in that group to maintain the 8am policy? Since managers are also expected to be leaders, how could we bring in a new manager to run a group of Cypress employees that adhere to the 8am policy when the manager does not?
Our analysis shows that our combined company needs to have 1,688 fewer employees than the current sum of employees of the two companies. If an average worker would choose to leave the opportunity our combined company offers over an 8am-vs.-9am issue, that employee is clearly not well connected to either company and is best part of the 1,688 departures. (And here I’m talking about the average case, not the 5% corner cases often used to argue unreasonably against the broad policy).
I won’t embarrass myself or the readers of this memo by going through the standard excuses for late arrival. As I said earlier, if we have people that truly work on a different shift from the standard day shift, we will create appropriate work hours for them, either on a collective or individual basis.
Given that 95% of all workers can meet the 8am policy , that should set policy. Then, all we need to do is to consider the “special cases,” a few very important people with important skills who will not start work at 8am for some good or bad reason. I am prepared to make some individual exceptions (think single digits) for these cases. However, I would have difficulty–other than for an absolutely exceptional person–allowing someone to manage a significant group while choosing to observe different work hours than the group they are supposed to be leading. And, given the choice of two viable employees to join the middle tier of the new company, I would choose the employee who can work standard hours, rather than having to create a special deal. (Dan McCranie’s new secretary starts at 7:30am.)
Any deal for non-standard work hours must go through an HR process. I’ve asked Carmine Renzulli to gather information on what special shifts and special deals we may need, so that we can deal with this problem in one fell swoop.
One final note, when I received the answer on 8am exceptions in operations from Jeff McNeil, I sent a similar query about design to Andy Wright.
…We sometimes create special hours for designers who must interface with Asian or European design centers [AZW fact-check].
From: Andrew Wright
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 2:04 PM
To: Frances Miguel
Cc: Shirlene Arellano
Subject: RE: Fact-Check for TJR please.. need answer by 3pm today
Frances,
After asking around there has been only one example of this that we can find in San Jose. The engineer in question is a Sr individual technical contributor working fulltime everyday with China for several quarters on the actual coding development of RTL for a block.
This is very rare and the balkanization was allowed to enable training the engineer and improving the quality of our serial interfaces. The HR 8am waiver was signed for 1yr.
By general practice we expect people interfacing to Asia to take calls from home at 8pm to about 9:30 or 10pm as necessary and be at work on time. Interfacing to Europe is easy with 8am start.
We have worked to solve the problem by debalkanizing the design groups and their charters and reducing the need for this interface to make it tolerable for engineers.
There is no other example we could recall or find with this as a reason for the 8am waiver.
Thx,
Andy
It appears that Cypress people have learned to use the 8am policy almost without exception, despite our process to create exceptions. I would consider some one-year group exceptions, but–beware–that could create some animosity in groups that have “favored” employees. Arriving at 8am is a cultural trait
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