Tom does not clock out for lunch breaks everyday. His leaders and coworkers have noticed this pattern for an extended period of time.
Leader #1 (First Principles Thinking)
"Tom knows our organization is discouraging overtime and by not taking his lunch break and clocking out on time he is saving our department money!
Leader #2 (Second-Order Thinking)
"Tom is saving our department on overtime by not clocking out for lunch, but he seems tired and frustrated everyday..."
"I know Tom is burnt out from skipping his lunch breaks to save the department money, but maybe the overtime is a result of not having enough staff and not a time management issue"
Leader #3 (Probabilistic Thinking)
"Tom has been told many times that taking a lunch break is policy, he has to manage his time better!"
Leader #4 (Circle of Competence)
Leader #5 (Thought Experiment/ Inversion)
"We know that staff skipping lunch breaks cuts our overtime, lets explore budgeting more staff positions with our savings to even and manage the workload"
"Our overtime is due to the workload we are expecting from our staff. The solution is to budget more full-time staff positions to reduce overtime"
Leader #6 (Occam's Razor)
"Tom is not trying to violate policy, he is trying to save the department money. We know that we have to add more staff positions to rectify the situation"