But
flexitime can give a business, as well as its employees, greater flexibility to meet the needs of customers over extended hours, to focus on essential project work before and after the normal finishing time, and to have a more committed and happier team," he said.
But there is a way to avoid the crowds without having to quit your job or go part-time: it is called
flexitime. Pioneered in the United States in the 1970s, the practice of giving employees greater freedom in choosing their own hours has become an increasingly popular option for workers in the United States, United Kingdom, Nordic countries and Japan in particular, but has even found its way into local office culture.
State facilities that don't have an electronic clocking in and out system cannot monitor the
flexitime arrangement, and so are also having all staff come in at 7.30am, the public administration department said.
There will be no more enhanced payments for working outside normal office hours and staff at the Herbert will no longer have the benefit of
Flexitime.
The ticketing system is particularly beneficial to part-time and
flexitime commuters who use the train intermittently or for any occasional train travel needs such as attending sporting events.
(Discussing the implications of CWs,
flexitime, and part-time work for women.)
But this rise is at the expense of overtime rates and allowances that are currently paid, and officers would also be expected to work more
flexitime.
The survey also illustrated a real desire by managers to implement
flexitime, or at least, flexible methods of working.
Employment minister Alan Johnson has chosen today to announce that parents with kids under six will get the legal right to work part or
flexitime. That will benefit 2.1 million dads and another 1.5 million working mums when the new scheme becomes law in April.
The initiative from the Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI) involves, in the first instance, a study on the possible introduction of staggered work hours and "
flexitime" to ease traffic congestion, arising from traffic growth from 54,670 vehicles in 1993 to 90,000 today.
Nearly a third of business services (30 per cent) and manufacturing firms (29 per cent) offer
flexitime to staff, compared to just 14 per cent of retail or distribution companies.
In the short time needed for the anesthesia to work, I took my impression for the temporary using
Flexitime Monophase impression material (Heraeus Kulzer) in a rimless quadrant tray.