How Employers Can Make Flexible Hours Work For Everyone
3. REDEFINE PRODUCTIVITY
Flexible work demands a shift away from seeing productivity in terms of being present for fixed working hours. Indeed, the problem of presenteeism—where people feel compelled (вынуждены, обязаны) to show their face at work even if they are ill—only feeds into the productivity puzzle.
Companies (and managers) need to devise (разработать, продумать) better measures of output (продуктивность, производительность): has a project been completed within schedule, did the team work well together, is the report of a high quality? These are much more effective yardsticks (показатели, критерии) of success than whether staff clock in at 9 a.m. each morning. But if you want this approach to function, it requires real teamwork and a great sense of responsibility, not to mention self-discipline.
