Buddy Punching
The only item on the list that is unambiguously what the term implies. How much of it there is, and what actually stops it.
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The categories
Each taken separately, because a policy that treats them as one fails at all of them.
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Breaks and the Minutes Around Them
Extended breaks are the largest category by volume and the one most often produced by the employer's own arrangements.
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When the System Is the Problem
The sixth category, which is not time theft at all, and which is a large share of what gets counted as such.
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Clocking In Early and Out Late
Minutes at the edges of a shift, which are sometimes taken and more often given. Telling the two apart before deciding anything.
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Personal Things During Paid Time
Phone calls, errands and messages. The category where every workplace has a norm and almost none has stated it.
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Time Theft and Remote Work
Distance produces suspicion, and the products sold against it measure keyboard input. What the concern actually is and what addresses it.
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Shift Work and Handover
Where two shifts meet, minutes belong to nobody by default. The overlap that is either paid, unpaid or pretended away.
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Agency Staff and Contractors
Who investigates, who pays, and the status question that an aggressive time-keeping policy can answer badly.
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