Flexible working arrangements are on the rise, and more and more employers are waking up to the very real benefits of helping their employees achieve a greater home and work life balance. Rather than spending all their time at their glass desk, employees want to be able to fit in their home responsibilities and spare time endeavours into their lives without their working lives suffering.
There are countless ways to achieve this, but flexitime could be a good option.
A business which has a flexitime arrangement is, as the name would suggest, offering flexible working hours. Despite that, there are core hours in place, to ensure that the office isn’t left unmanned during busy times, with no-one at their office desks. This means that for the rest of the time, you can choose whether to work from home, from a coffee shop or co-working space, or you can arrange your hours so you’re not working first thing in the morning and you’re working later, or vice versa.
In order to make flexitime work for you, and therefore spend less wasted time sat on boardroom leather chairs, without being productive, you need to identify the time that you need. Do you need to take the kids to school in the mornings? Do you simply find that you’re more productive in the afternoons? Identify when is best for you to work and then arrange your hours around that.
Provided you are at your desk for the set core hours and you’re working your contracted weekly hours, flexitime is a great way to ensure a home and work life balance that suits you.
Do you work flexitime?