Staying in a hotel is often an exciting experience. You might have been planning this vacation for months, and finally, you and your family get to relax in a hotel for a week without any of the burdens of cooking, cleaning or doing laundry. But if you have to travel for work, the experience of staying in a hotel can be a chore in and of itself. So the least a company can do for their employees, when they must stay in hotels frequently, is offer them a tad bit of personal space. No matter how much you love your colleagues, spending entire days and nights with them can be too much.
One man who knows this struggle all too well recently recounted his experience of working for a company that required constant traveling of employees, and one day enacted a ludicrous hotel room policy, on the Malicious Compliance subreddit. Below, you can read the full story, as well as some of the comments it has received, and decide if you think his colleagues handled the situation appropriately. Then if you’re interested in reading another Bored Panda story featuring workers malicious complying to their supervisors, check out this article next.
One man recently shared the story of how his former employer enacted an ill-thought-out policy to cut costs when employees traveled for work
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After years of employees having their own hotel rooms when traveling, they were suddenly informed they needed to start sharing
The new policy inspired employees to get creative and squeeze as much money as they could out of the company when traveling
Employees also found a way to make sure that their manager had a bad experience sharing a hotel room
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It is surprising that this company would enact such a drastic policy after years of paying for company travel. And considering how common it is to have to travel for work, there are really no excuses for making employees uncomfortable. In fact, in the United States alone, 1.3 million people are traveling for work every day. And every year, 400 million Americans are required to go on long-distance business trips. Plenty of companies have figured out how to take care of their workers while they are away from home, so this company should not have been any different. They were also probably making great profits from their employees traveling around. On average, businesses earn $12.50 in revenue for every dollar that they invest in business trips, so I’m sure they could manage to provide separate bedrooms for these employees who spend the entire day cooped up in a car together.
Technically, there are no laws in the US requiring employers to provide workers with their own accommodation, but as the Society for Human Resource Management writes on their website, “[Requiring employees to share rooms] may cause employee relations issues that, in the long run, cost an employer more in lower employee morale, higher turnover, and decreased productivity than the savings realized. Not being at home and putting in long days in unfamiliar territory may already stress employees. While a small number of employees may be comfortable sharing a room, a room-sharing policy could create ill will between co-workers.”
It’s great to hear that in the end this company reverted to its old policies, but as the original poster noted, the damage was already done. One of the commenters brought up the point that the most costly thing a company can do is treat their employees poorly, and that is absolutely the case. Hopefully, they learned a lesson that by keeping morale high, employees are much more likely to stick around and stay motivated to do their work well. Let us know what you think of this situation down below, and if you have ever experienced something similar at work, we’d love to hear how you stood up for yourself.
Many readers were amused by the story, some even had their own similar experiences to share
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