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GSInAZ
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What is the name of your state? Az
As with most high-tech companies mine has gone through reductions in force leading to a skeleton crew of us left to maintain business vital systems on a 24X7 basis. While in the past we have had groups of people that could trade off on-call responsibilities we are now down to some groups having only 1 person to perform this task.
The expectation is that you will ALWAYS be available by cell phone and that no matter where you are and what you are doing you will drop it all and come running in case of a problem. While problems are few and far between this tends to put a damper of what you can do.
How far can a company go in requiring this kind of response but offer nothing in the way of additional compensation? I have brought this up in the past and basically the line is that 'you are exempt and this is expected as part of your job'. As I see it I am now 'working' 24 hours a day and even slaves get time to sleep.
Thanks for you advice/comments in advance.
As with most high-tech companies mine has gone through reductions in force leading to a skeleton crew of us left to maintain business vital systems on a 24X7 basis. While in the past we have had groups of people that could trade off on-call responsibilities we are now down to some groups having only 1 person to perform this task.
The expectation is that you will ALWAYS be available by cell phone and that no matter where you are and what you are doing you will drop it all and come running in case of a problem. While problems are few and far between this tends to put a damper of what you can do.
How far can a company go in requiring this kind of response but offer nothing in the way of additional compensation? I have brought this up in the past and basically the line is that 'you are exempt and this is expected as part of your job'. As I see it I am now 'working' 24 hours a day and even slaves get time to sleep.
Thanks for you advice/comments in advance.