Manager accuses salaried employee of ‘shortchanging the company’ by leaving 20 minutes early despite finishing all their work ahead of schedule

Finishing your work early doesn't mean you get to leave early…So you'd better stay and pretend to work!… That's what the manager of this employee wanted to say to her when this started to be a problem. In an office, not all of us work at the same rhythm: there're some who tackle things faster, while others like to take some extra time on this. And if we add computer skills to this equation, the result would be more differences in time.I think that we need to accept that working is not related to time, but more to results. This employee said that they get all their work in on time, usually before the schedule, and during the afternoon they are usually waiting for other people to give them more work… just hanging around. So, what's the problem with leaving early if there's nothing extra to do?The manager would have been fine with this if it had not been for this one coworker who arrives later than the employee to the office and usually stays far longer than them. The reason behind this? It's not being more commited: is actually that they struggle with technology, and that, of course, causes them to have to work a little longer every day. So, I'm assuming that out of jealousy, they s…

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