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Advantages of Flextime

The Advantages of Flextime
When an employee wakes up at 5:30 in the morning for 20 years someone has to think that this sometimes becomes very routine and boring. Get up at 5:30, be at work at 8 and then watch the clock until 4 that afternoon. This describes many peoples’ attitudes to their workday. What if they are a night person and say could work from 11 that morning to 7 in the evening? This is the idea of flextime and it is gaining in popularity in the United States’ major and smaller corporations.
Flextime is basically allowing an employee to pick the hours of their workday around the core mid-day hours, such as 11 A.M. to 2 P.M. They determine their own starting and stopping hours to best suit them, but they must still put in their regular weekly hours of work. In practice most employers only give employees a limited amount of freedom in choosing their hours, such as an employee has to be in by 10 A.M., but to a mother who needs to have a few more hours...

Posted by: Janet Valerio

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