Are you Obliged to Practice 5S Habit in Your Office?
By Firefly
@cttolledo (5460)
Legaspi, Philippines
October 16, 2017 12:46am CST
Are you aware of 5S habit?
This is very common in most of the offices, this is basically a Standard of cleaning and organizing of place, originated from Japan and now adopted and observed by most of the Companies.
To make my story short, we are required by the company to strictly observe this standard. We have assigned auditors that quarterly visits our department to check on if we are following the standard .
During visit , they have a standard checklist of what to look for, you will be rated 0 for non compliance and 1 for being compliant.
How serious it is? Your rate will affect your performance during evaluation period, so meaning it will also affect your salary increase.
That's how serious this company in the implementation of this standard.
How about in your office guys?
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@cttolledo (5460)
• Legaspi, Philippines
16 Oct 17
5S means - SORT, SET IN ORDER ,SHINE, STANDARDIZE, and SUSTAIN. each S have its own sub-standards. Each of sub- standards mentioned in the checklist has its corresponding rate.
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
16 Oct 17
Shame on our company we don't know this,our boss is not really a strict one.
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@cttolledo (5460)
• Legaspi, Philippines
16 Oct 17
Haha. you should be happy then. Following that standards is kinda hard also. But if you think the benefit you can get from it its gonna be okay to practice it.
@cttolledo (5460)
• Legaspi, Philippines
16 Oct 17
@ilocosboy hahaha well. every company has its own culture.. they have own management style
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
16 Oct 17
@cttolledo it seems like we have a laissez faire kind of organization. But not really like that, but almost like that, he he.
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@m_audrey6788 (58485)
• Germany
16 Oct 17
Yes when I was still working along time ago and it`s really a great help doing that as you can get things very easy and quick 
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@m_audrey6788 (58485)
• Germany
16 Oct 17
@cttolledo It`s good as long as you always see to it done before going home
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@cttolledo (5460)
• Legaspi, Philippines
16 Oct 17
@m_audrey6788 yeah you have to fix things before going home otherwise auditors will be around and call my attention.
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@cttolledo (5460)
• Legaspi, Philippines
16 Oct 17
Yeah I like it too, but sometimes its too good to be true. I mean its too burdensome to do it every day especially when you have a lot of paper works that urgently need to attend to. Sometimes not practical anymore.
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@cttolledo (5460)
• Legaspi, Philippines
16 Oct 17
Oh really? Meaning people are hired under contract? no regularization in your country?
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@cttolledo (5460)
• Legaspi, Philippines
16 Oct 17
@nangayo ahhh okay. it seems that you country have its own unique working cultue.
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@nangayo (2291)
• Nairobi, Kenya
16 Oct 17
@cttolledo Some ministries that is how they operate not all of them.
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