When Should Work Interfere with Family Plans?

Management of the XYZ Company is always impressed by employees who go in and work on Saturdays. This weekend you have a problem: If you work Saturday and Sunday, you can complete a project two days early. Or, you could take your family to the beach. Which do you do?

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Answers

When Should Work Interfere with Family Plans? - Answer A

Take the family to the beach for two days.
When Should Work Interfere with Family Plans? - Answer B

Work, knowing the family will understand.
When Should Work Interfere with Family Plans? - Answer C

Work, letting the wife take the kids to the beach.
When Should Work Interfere with Family Plans? - Answer D

Work one day, go to the beach the other day.

Cite this page: "When Should Work Interfere with Family Plans?" Online Ethics Center for Engineering 6/20/2006 National Academy of Engineering Accessed: Thursday, February 09, 2012 <www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/Case88.aspx>