Civil Service Commission

1. CSC MC 01, S. 2017:
Reiteration of the policy on
government office hours; and the
administrative offenses of frequent
unauthorized absences (habitual
absenteeism); tardiness in reporting for
duty; and loafing from duty during
regular office hours

2. CSC reminds gov't workers: Observe work
hours, don't be late
The Civil Service Commission issues
a memorandum amid reports that
some government officials and
employees do not observe
prescribed office hours

3. CSC Chairperson Alicia dela Rosa-Bala.
These acts are detrimental to public service
thus we are reminding all government
workers of all departments and agencies to
render eight hours of work from Monday to
Friday, or not less than 40 hours a week,”

4. CSC
Dismissal awaits government
workers violating work hours

5. Government workers
were also warned that loafing during
regular office hours is a grave
offense and is punishable by
suspension of six months to one
year for the first offense, and
dismissal from the service for the
second offense.

7. Loafer's

8. LOafers

9. warns that falsification or irregularities
in the keeping of time records will
render the officer or employee
administratively liable without prejudice
to criminal prosecution as the
circumstances warrant.

10. Civil Service Commission
Government workers were also warned
that loafing during regular office hours
is a grave offense and is punishable by
suspension of six months to one year
for the first offense, and dismissal from
the service for the second offense.

11. Dismissal from work

13. Absenteeism
Frequent unauthorized absences from
duty during regular office hours
constitute loafing, and it results in
inefficiency and non-performance of
duty which adversely affects the
prompt delivery of service to the
public,”

14. Habitually Absent
Section 22, Rule XIV, Omnibus Rules
Implementing Book V of Executive Order No. 292
provides: “An officer or employee in the civil
service shall be considered habitually absent if
one incurs unauthorized absences exceeding the
allowable 2.5 days monthly leave credit under the
Leave Law for at least three months in a semester
or at least three consecutive months.”

15. Duty of Agency Heads
to ensure that all officers and employees
under them will strictly observe the prescribed
office hours, Let the government offices to
review their policies on the observance of
government work hours and ensure that
measures are in place to deter unauthorized
absences, tardiness in reporting for duty, and
loafing during office hours.

16. Social loafing
 creates a negative impact on the
performance of the group and
thus slowing down the
productivity of the whole
organization.

17. EFFECTS OF LOAFING

18. Leads to Poor Team Spirit:
members become lazy and
reluctant, making the least
contribution in the group, the
whole team feels demotivated
and demoralized

19. Hinders Development:
The growth of the organization
gradually falls if social loafing
continues for a long time.

20. Causes Wastage of Resources:
The human resource involves cost,
and because of social loafing, the
employees become futile for the
organization.

21. Demotivates Hard Working
Team Members:
Due to free-riders effect and sucker
effect, the performing team
members get demoralized, and they
also try to slack off from the
assigned task considering it as a
burden.

22. Affects Decision Making:
Without proper input from all
the group members, the group’s
decision making efficiency
diminishes.

23. How to neutralize the Negativities of this
memorandum circular
Were coming from the Context of RA
6713 Section 4: The norms and Ethical
standards of Public officials and
employees

24. Thank you…

25. Sucker Effect
Due to the free-rider effect, the other
members of the group or team feel
overloaded with work, since they now
have to do the task of such free-riders
too, without getting any additional
recognition.

26. Sucker effect of social loafing.
Thus, the other team members get
demotivated and feel sucked at their job. All
this results into the feeling of exploitation by
these social loafers, among the active
employees and hinders their performance
too. This is known as the sucker effect of
social loafing.

27. REFERENCES
 Social Loafing
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