what are the common causes of being late at work?

lack of motivation, house is far, sleeps late. these are the reasons i know. guilty of two.

Yes i am late but not always and yes there are reasons for being late at work ansd they are as follow: when i get improper sleep when i get less sleep when my head is paining when i have gone outside This are some reasons that make me go late at work.

People not being organized tends to be a cause more often than not. Then again, that is a cause of being late for many, many places. Not really limited all that much to work in general. Just being all that late in general. So yeah, if you are not organized, chances are your morning is going to be rather hectic and you are going to struggle to really get out of the door all that much in a timely manner. Also, the fact is they don't account for the fact that there might be heavy amounts of traffic. Trust me, there are some mornings where you can get to work rather easily but other mornings, there is a higher concentration of traffic out there. If you leave rather early and get there early, then better early than late. Still just because it should take you around fifteen minutes to get to work, does not mean that it will always take you fifteen minutes to get to work. So that is really something that people should really account for. Those are just really a couple of reasons that come off hand when people are late for work.

laziness is one of the reasons why someone comes in late

I am not the type of person who is always late but if I will be late, that means I dont feel like going to work. Like I do it on purpose or I feel sick.

it would have to be resnoozing my alarm clock for another 15 minutes. Getting out of bed is one of the hardest thing to do in the morning. so i kind of developed an instinct to hit the snooze button as soon as the alarm goes off. I think I would have snoozed at least 3 times until my brain finally decided to get out of bed.

I was late for work last October because my car broke down on the way to work. Then in February I was late because there was an accident on the beltway and I got stuck in traffic. Because of those two things they wanted to fire me. I had never had any attendance issues before never called out sick in two and 1/2 years. I got the union involved and I wasn't fired but now I come to work 1 and 1/2 hours earlier just so I don't get stuck in traffic.

I don't want to be late at work either. But there are times that we can not avoid being late specially if we are caught by the traffic. Some people are trying to blame others of why they are late. There's no excuse of being responsible of our time. Most common cause of being late is not being responsible of waking up early.

I try to be always on time for work, so I always leave earlier than I should just in case there's a problem with the train or the bus, as you never know when something's going to happen in the way. Because of that I tend to arrive too early, but I hate when people make me wait, and I think being late gives a very bad impression at work, so I try to be there always on time as a part of my responsibility.

I have never been late at work, but if ever there must be a reason.Either traffic or some unforeseen event that needs attention.One must practice time management too and you must adhere to it.

If im ever late for work its always due to traffic. I'm the type of person who hates being late to work due to the fact I don't want to hear my boss' mouth when I get there late. No matter how good of a worker you are many employers are really unappreciative and that one time you make it inconvient for them by being late they make a big deal out of it. Atleast in my experience.

Good for you that you have never been late for work! Keep it up! =) I don't have work right now, but aside from the things you already mentioned, there is also the traffic maybe, or maybe they are just not motivated enough to go to work. Maybe they are not happy with the work and feel lazy. In those cases, maybe they are not meant to be in that job and they should try to look for something else. =P

There is list of my getting late at work because i normally get late at workplace: 1.Traffic jam. 2.Illness of wife/kid/parents. 3.sleep late at night so could not wake up at time. 4.could not get public transport on time. 5.Vehical got punctured. 6.Some one met on the way.

there was a time that i've been late, it was my first time and the reason why i'm late, cause of traffic near in my work. I was mad that time cos of that i had a bad record for being late haha but it's ok its part of my job and not all the time you have a good record ;0

I work from home so I'm never late for work now :) However, for me, the only reasons I was ever late when working for someone else were traffic, weather, public transit breakdowns or my car not starting. I live in Canada so a snowstorm will cause terrible delays in getting over bridges, parking, etc. So, on snowy days, pretty much everyone is going to be late for work if they have any kind of commute at all.

We are actually the same. I discipline myself to get up early in the morning not to get late for work. I feel the need to energize myself first before going to work to ensure myself of a nice working day. For those latecomers out there, try to wake up way too earlier than usual. Do some light exercises like breathing and stretching to warm up your body. This helps in stimulating the body to get ready for a day's work.