How Employers Can Make Flexible Hours Work For Everyone
There are many benefits to flexible work. But companies need to create the right conditions to make it a success. For employees, flexible work means being better able to fit their jobs around other responsibilities, such as looking after children or elderly relatives. For businesses, this means retaining staff (сохранить персонал) and saving lots of money it costs to replace them.
Yet many remain stuck in positions with rigid (строгие, фиксированные) working hours. One of the sticking points (препятствие) for employers is that flexible work is equated with letting staff work from home or work part-time. So a whole battery of ways in which flexible work could be used gets overlooked (упускается из внимания), including job shares, compressed hours, term-time working, flexi-hours etc. Next time we’ll tell you about four ways that businesses can get flexible hours to work for them and their staff.
