Convenience

Flexible Work Schedules
Another promising alternative work arrangement is
flexible
work schedules
, sometimes called
flextime
. Flextime gives employees more personal con-
trol over the times they work. The workday is broken down into two categories: flexible
time and core time. All employees must be at their workstation during core time, but
they can choose their own schedules during flexible time. Thus, one employee may
choose to start work early in the morning and leave in mid-afternoon, another to start
in the late morning and work until late afternoon, and still another to start early in the
morning, take a long lunch break, and work until late afternoon. Organizations that have
used the flexible-work schedule method for arranging work include Hewlett-Packard,
Microsoft, and Texas Instruments.
Job Sharing
Yet another potentially useful alternative work arrangement is job
sharing. In
job sharing
, two part-time employees share one full-time job. One person
may perform the job from 8:00 a.m. to noon, and the other from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Job sharing may be desirable for people who want to work only part-time or when
job markets are tight. For its part, the organization can accommodate the
preferences of a broader range of employees and may benefit from the talents of
more people.
flexible-work
schedules
Work schedules that
allow employees to
select, within broad
parameters, the
hours they work
compressed work
schedule
Working a full forty-
hour week in fewer
than the traditional
five days
job sharing
When two part-time
employees share one
full-time job
Chapter 10:
Managing Employee Motivation and Performance
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