How Employers Can Make Flexible Hours Work For Everyone
2. BE FLEXIBLE ABOUT FLEXIBILITY
Managers and employees need to come together in a safe space to assemble flexible working arrangements (установить правила гибкой работы) that work for everyone, with a real understanding of what is at stake (положено на чашу весов) and what is possible. A part of this is the need to get flexible about flexibility—recognizing that circumstances change and that work arrangements may need to be tweaked (может быть нужно внести поправки) or even reversed over time to ensure that they remain fit for purpose.
Flexible work has been used as a management tool to achieve savings by imposing remote or zero-hours contracts on workforces, with little input from those called on to do their jobs differently. So it’s necessary to give people space to make suggestions and give feedback about flexible work. And it is also about making use of a range of flexible working arrangements.
