Lawyer and Managing Partner at KEDE LAW, Ekua Eguakun is urging employees to ensure they enhance productivity at their workplaces.

According to her, since the employee is being paid for rendering services, it was justifiable that an employee worked hard to increase productivity to enable their employers and firms to obtain profits.

“As a worker, you’ve been engaged. You're expecting to be paid so you must work conscientiously. You’ve been engaged to do an exact job description. You must put in your all.  You must work hard, you must put out your best skill to make sure that you're giving out your best output or performance…So, report to work regularly and punctually, enhance productivity.”

She said this while contributing to a discussion on the employment relationship on The Law on Sunday, April 30.

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Although she advised workers to report to work punctually, she pointed out that as a worker, merely doing that was not enough.

Madam Eguakun stressed that in the execution of duty, a worker needed to be punctual, regular, and above all be productive from between the hours they report to work and leave their place of work.

“It's a two-way relationship. Once the employer is paying you, you must give out your best skills ever for the betterment of the organization. You must report to work regularly and punctually. And this is very important…

“So, within the eight to five [time reported to work], you're not supposed to be just leisurely walking around and not doing anything…  within that period, you must be productive so at the end of the day, (you should know) how much you have put into your work," the legal practitioner stressed.

Additionally, Madam Eguakun said that it was the duty and responsibility of an employee to exercise due care in the execution of their work, explaining that it was important for employees to ensure that properties of their employers are protected, as doing so contributes towards enhancing productivity.

The legal practitioner cited the tendency for most workers to waste resources at their workplaces and stressed that such negative behaviours were disadvantageous to employers and their organisations.

“We leave air conditions on, even when you go to offices, sometimes you may go overnight, and things are switched on, electricity is running out because it's not yours. Especially one other thing that workers do: wastage, paperwork… You’re costing so much to the organisation,” the lawyer bemoaned.

Madam Eguakun therefore advised employees to eschew such behaviours, explaining that they hindered progress and did not enhance productivity at the workplace.