[LEAPSECS] Problem for comparison: workers in multiple time zones

[Brian Garrett]

In my experience, FWIW, employees that get to travel like that are salaried 
and therefore don't have to punch a clock.  Time zones may figure into 
"billable hours", but there are no hourly wages for these people that are 
dependent on a time clock's being accurate  to , 1 minute, let alone 1 
second.

Brian

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From: "Gerard Ashton" <ashtongj at comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 8:32 AM
To: <leapsecs at leapsecond.com>
Subject: [LEAPSECS] Problem for comparison: workers in multiple time zones


> In this list, various time problems that people have learned to live with 

> without really solving are sometimes mentioned, in order to put the leap 

> second problem into perspective. I would like to mention one more.

>

> A company has its employees fill out a time sheet on a computer (or 

> equivalently, has a data entry employee enter the data into a computer 

> without training said data enterer with clear instructions). The company 

> has numerous government and company policies concerning hourly pay, 

> overtime, extra compensation for weekends and holidays. The employees 

> often travel and get involved in complex situation such as boarding a 

> plane in one time zone, work on the plane, and report to work at the home 

> office, all in a 24 hour period. The computer time entry programs 

> typically do not have a time zone field, and the employees are typically 

> given no instructions on how to record time worked in a different time 

> zone. In many cases this reflects an absence of company policy on work in 

> a different time zone.

>