Flexible working 1
MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES
Author Name(s)
Class (course)
Tutor (Professor)
University (School)
The City and State
Date
, Flexible working 2
Introduction
With the recent developments and advancements in the world today, most organizations
are putting extra effort and care into their employees. Therefore, employees are considered to be
one of the major assets that a business can have. In addition to ensuring that an organization hires
employees with the required skills and knowledge in handling the day to day activities, they
ensure that they provide the best environment for the employees so that they can be productive.
One of the most recent techniques in ensuring that employees perform in the best environment is
availing them with flexible working hours. This is a technique that most human resource
managers employ today to ensure that employees work when most productive. This study aims
to look at the scope of flexible working and how organizations today have implemented this
technique.
Flexible working
In the previous years, most organizations had a traditional sense of working whereby
employees had a schedule in which they followed to work. It was often based on the idea that
working hours were from nine to five. However, as time progressed the human resource
managers realized that the ideality of working only specific hours may bring boredom to the
employees and reduce their productivity (Andresen and Nowak, 2014). Additionally, it is a
method that did not take into account the personal needs of an individual nor the time that they
are best productive. Therefore, most organizations have begun to abolish this traditional sense of
working hours by introducing flexible working schedules for the employees. Additionally, the
need by employees to maintain a healthy work-life balance has also largely contributed to the
adoption of flexible working.
MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES
Author Name(s)
Class (course)
Tutor (Professor)
University (School)
The City and State
Date
, Flexible working 2
Introduction
With the recent developments and advancements in the world today, most organizations
are putting extra effort and care into their employees. Therefore, employees are considered to be
one of the major assets that a business can have. In addition to ensuring that an organization hires
employees with the required skills and knowledge in handling the day to day activities, they
ensure that they provide the best environment for the employees so that they can be productive.
One of the most recent techniques in ensuring that employees perform in the best environment is
availing them with flexible working hours. This is a technique that most human resource
managers employ today to ensure that employees work when most productive. This study aims
to look at the scope of flexible working and how organizations today have implemented this
technique.
Flexible working
In the previous years, most organizations had a traditional sense of working whereby
employees had a schedule in which they followed to work. It was often based on the idea that
working hours were from nine to five. However, as time progressed the human resource
managers realized that the ideality of working only specific hours may bring boredom to the
employees and reduce their productivity (Andresen and Nowak, 2014). Additionally, it is a
method that did not take into account the personal needs of an individual nor the time that they
are best productive. Therefore, most organizations have begun to abolish this traditional sense of
working hours by introducing flexible working schedules for the employees. Additionally, the
need by employees to maintain a healthy work-life balance has also largely contributed to the
adoption of flexible working.
