Focusing on outcomes rather than someone's physical presence on your premises might seem a radical approach to take - it encourages lateness and long lunches, some people might think - but if a business isn't about getting the right outcomes, what is it about?
Refer to your notes and detail specific problems, including job performance, attendance, chronic lateness or long lunches that become afternoons away from the office.
Because of the strong evidence supporting the correlation between late blight resistance and lateness in plant maturity under long day conditions (Bormann et al. 2004), our study assessed plant maturity type to determine the linkage relationships among loci controlling both traits.
Considering the lateness of the hour, my long days, my proneness to falling asleep absolutely anywhere -- Nana and I fell asleep on each other at a midnight screening of The Avengers opening night; don't worry, we'll return this week to soak up the pop-culture explosion -- I was surprised that I stayed awake through the film.
CHINA'S airlines and airports have long been notorious for their lateness.
"This kind of saga needs to be at least 500 pages long," he soothed, "and my lateness allowed beaucoup de unnecessary period couleur.
It didn't last long: he was sacked for persistent lateness.
In the first case, imposing fines for lateness implied that lateness was expected and okay, as long as parents paid; in the second case, rewards sent the message that altruism is something you do for reward, not because it's inherently gratifying.
And R has spent a long time getting used to my family's peccadilloes (lateness, high ratio of addiction, chaos, the sniffing of everything from knickers to food to see if it's acceptable to wear/eat) and I've got used to those of his family (grinding punctuality, low ratio of addiction, the chucking away of anything even slightly dubious smelling or offensive-looking).
Condé Nast has been slower than other magazine publishers to embrace the Internet, and some industry analysts have questioned whether its lateness in developing a digital strategy would harm the company in the long run.
