Advice for Employers and Recruiters
What You Need To Know About Asking Your Boss For a Flexible Working Arrangement
I had an argument with my friend yesterday – she’s a manager who looks after 40 staff and is struggling to accommodate everyone’s requests for flexible working arrangements. I, on the other hand, have enjoyed working for a company that actively encouraged its workers to work flexibly: within that organisation there were job sharing directors, people who worked from home, people who worked part time and casually, and people who worked in different states, at different times of the day.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “Seventy percent of Cisco Systems employees regularly work from home at least 20% of the time. So do 34% of workers at Booz Allen Hamilton and 32% at S.C. Johnson & Sons.”
So are flexible working arrangements useful, or the first step towards a company losing its productivity? How do you ask for a flexible working arrangement and does it mean that you’ll work more… or less?
So…What are Flexible Working Arrangements?
Flexible working arrangements fall into three main categories: when you work, where you work, and how you work. Continue reading . . .
By Yvette Maurice and courtesy of Open Colleges Blog
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