Flexible Working Hours

[SocketRocket]

You obviously work in a customer driven business and I understand your point of view ,but I think it is wise to consider what exactly are 'normal' hours of work and what can be considered flexible.

If someone works from 9 to 5 Monday to Friday without deviation then that could be classed as fixed hours. But if that same person as a requirement of their job to attend evening meetings on a regular basis , then takes that time off ( because they won't get paid ) , this could be interpreted as flexible working.

In many customer driven businesses the need to fulfill orders at short notice require the staff to have a flexible hours contract, this can take the form of banked hours where an amount of hours are agreed to be banked ( say 100 hours to be worked in any one year) when orders need to be fulfilled . In the slack times you may not have to attend your place of work.

There are a few other working patterns where flexibility is built into workers contracts , all of them flexible to a degree.

Some people see flexible working as doing less hours or the same hours but in a different way , no one way is right or wrong just different.

Thank you for a refreshingly sensible post. I agree with what you say.

My earlier post was pointing out that when working in a fairly small group it can be seen as unfair by some staff that cannot work at home when others do. I did find the company performed better when the team were working together in the office, it didnt work the same way when they were using virtual communications and the security of the business was suffering. After some initial complaints the majority agreed that it created better customer results and after all it's results that count.