Memo
To: Supervisor
From: (Your Name)
Re: Issue at Work
Dear Supervisor,
This memo is to address a problem that I have at work. You know that I have been working with the XYZ Company for more than 15 years and I am very happy with my work for the company. The purpose for me to point out this problem and/or challenge that the company is having is to improve staff morale.
Currently, staffers who conduct overtime work are not paid for their overtime hours. I have looked at the Annual Report for the company over the last five years and there is a strong increase in profits that just seems to be getting better each and every year. What I would suggest is that some of these surplus funds be delegated to paying staffers for their overtime work rather than to increase the income of the executives of the company. By at least being paid for overtime work, this would greatly increase the moral of the staff and also contribute positively to the financial futures of the staffers and there would also be fewer turnovers in staff as a result.
Employee turnover is a real problem within this company. Since I started working with the XYZ Company, I have seen and I have observed a situation where employees will take on the job for a period of two or three months and then leave after that period due to the fact that are not being paid overtime and other companies are willing to pay them overtime for their extra hours. You may ask why I have not left the company over so many years and I will attempt to explain my unique situation.
When I first started working with the XYZ Company in 2001, the salary that the company offered was way above what other companies were offering in the field of computer technology organizations. I took this opportunity early, having graduated from a computer science program from a great school and having had received scholarships at that school and then coming out of school without any debt load to contend with. The money that I made from the XYZ Company enabled me to get married, purchase a home, and have children and to live a great life. Even to this day my debt load is extremely low and I continue to live a very good life so the lack of overtime pay does not tend to affect me personally, however I see how it affects other workers, as well as my working condition.
Since I am one of the more senior employees with the company, when the new employees come in I am usually the one to train them with their new job. What I see occur and many of the new employees tell me is that they continue to look for other opportunities at better paid employment with more attractive salaries not because they do not like working for the XYZ Company, but because they have huge amounts of student debt as well houses are more expensive to purchase now a days which requires a higher income to receive a mortgage from a bank and many of the young people are finding it impossible to even scrape together the money in order to pay for a wedding, a honeymoon and to have children because they simply cannot afford it. They need to look for better paid work and their own personal bottom line needs to be their primary objective.
The company is then losing out on some great potential minds to enrich this company further and to continue with the increased revenue success that the company has had at least for over the past five years. At the very least overtime should be paid, or salaries should be increased.
I hope you will consider this solution to what has been an ongoing problem over my time with the XYZ Company.