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I find it handy. I know exactly when my working week is over, and my overtime is automatically recorded.

It helps, of course, to work somewhere that pays overtime!



I don't mean time-cards are scary, but that companies that employ them tend to be exceedingly bureaucratic. First it's time-cards. Then it's catching crap for spending 65 minutes on a 60 minute lunch break. Next you'll be getting reports on missing your start clock by a few minutes here and there.


Oh, absolutely, they can be.

I'm lucky in that mine provides decent flexi-time. I can start any time between 7:30 and 10:00, take lunch from 11:45 to 2:30 and leave between 3:30 and 6:00.

So if I want a 65 minute lunch break I can have it - so long as my times add up in the long run. I'm in charge of being responsible for my timekeeping, which is how it should be.




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