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Name: Flexible Working
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Author: Gemma Dale

Gemma Dale

How to Implement Flexibility in the Workplace to Improve Employee and Business Performance

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'Flexible Working' by Gemma Dale is an insightful guide for modern professionals. It presents helpful tips and tools for successfully integrating work and life by harnessing the benefits of flexible working.

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What’s in it for me? A field guide to working outside the box.

The world of work is always changing. These days, holding everyone to the same old nine-to- five schedule is as outdated as an office filled with rotary phones. To keep your company at the cutting edge, it’s time to explore the world of unconventional scheduling.

In these blinks, you’ll find an overview of the dynamic world of flexible work, discover the diverse setups available to today’s organizations, and see why adopting new habits results in happier, more productive employees.

Along the way, you’ll pick up practical tips for trying out flexible working in your business.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

the worst part of everyone’s job;
how a Swiss insurance giant went flexible; and
why being present isn’t always important.

Adopting flexible work practices helps businesses and employees.

Picture a busy day in the city. A young father drops his two kids at daycare and heads to the office. After four hours, he picks them up and ends the day working from home. Across town, a young student finishes a ten-hour shift. She’ll only work four days this week. Meanwhile, her neighbor, a senior executive, hasn't been to any meetings for weeks, because she’s busy pursuing some hobbies.

Each of these individuals is approaching work in a different way, but they have one thing in common: each is an example of successful flexible working in action. And they’re all doing work that lets them balance their professional and personal lives without sacrificing productivity.

The key message here is: Adopting flexible work practices helps businesses and employees.

Flexible work is any type of working arrangement that is not the on-site, nine-to-five, five-days-a-week norm. By ditching the standard nine-to-five model, employees and employers get to adjust when and how work gets done. It could mean putting in longer hours for fewer days, teleworking full- or part-time, or just working select hours in the “gig economy.”

Some of these practices are as old as work itself, while others are made possible by new technology. In either case, the idea of flexible work is becoming more popular. Some studies report up to 87 percent of employees saying they’d prefer to have flexible work arrangements. And research in the United States has found that 35 percent would even change jobs to get it.

So, why is flexibility so attractive? Well, for workers, it cuts down on the stress of sticking to a one-size-fits-all schedule. Everyone has different needs and responsibilities, so being allowed to tailor the workday can be very helpful. In fact, research from YouGov shows that only 16 percent of workers would stick with the nine-to-five if given the choice.

Flexibility works for employers, too. Study after study shows that it’s easier to attract and keep the best people when you offer flexible work arrangements. Employees with more control over their hours also tend to be more productive, engaged, and creative.

So far, so promising. But what comes next? In the next blink, we’ll dig a little deeper into what this means for the future.

Flexible work is the future of work.

Imagine it’s 300 years ago. What’s your workday like? It’s probably centered on farming. Depending on the season, a day of labor could mean anything from tilling the fields till sunset to staying busy indoors waiting for spring.

What about 150 years ago? Like many people, you’ve been driven to live in the city by the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Instead of tending to crops and farmland, your working life is 40 or more hours a week in a factory.

Flexible work can seriously boost worker well-being.

What’s the worst part of your job? Maybe it’s the soul-crushing commute that seems to get longer every day. Or perhaps it’s your badly lit, overcrowded office. Maybe it’s just that you’re always getting supposedly urgent emails, even in the evenings and during the weekend.

The reasons for work-related dissatisfaction and burnout are many. Some are broad, structural problems like organization and culture, while others come from more specific or personal issues.

You can overcome barriers to flexible work with communication and technology.

When Becci Martin founded Boo Coaching and Consulting she wanted to help businesses develop strong leadership and reach their goals. But she also wanted her own business to be one in which people looked forward to coming into work each day.

That’s a pretty tall order. Still, she pulled it off. With a little trial and error, Becci set up a flexible work arrangement that met both goals.

Any workplace can become flexible by following a few simple principles.

For more than 140 years, Zurich Insurance Group has offered quality insurances from its headquarters nestled in the Swiss Alps. In that time, the company has grown from a small organization to an international beast with more than 55,000 employees. Obviously, a lot can change in 14 decades.

And yet, one of the biggest changes came recently. Zurich started experimenting with flexible work. At first, it was offered only to select employees. But the trials were so successful that the company expanded the program over and over. Today, more than 72 percent of Zurich’s workforce is flexible.

Avoid headaches by carefully planning your transition to flexible working.

Happier employees, more productive workdays, and fewer mornings stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Flexible work seems to offer so many benefits, you’re probably eager to adopt it right away. So why not start tomorrow?

If only it were that easy. Unfortunately, you can’t just snap your fingers and make flexible work happen overnight. In most cases, adopting a flexible approach means upending systems that have been in place for decades and retraining dozens, or even hundreds, of people on new policies and expectations.

Flexible work relies on having crystal-clear policies.

OK, it’s time to talk about something that no one likes but everyone needs. No, not exercise! We’re talking about something much more humdrum: paperwork, rules, and regulations.

These bedrocks of work life are not especially exciting, but they play a crucial part in all well-functioning organizations. Running a company without written policies and procedures is like building a house without blueprints. Eventually, the entire thing could become unstable and collapse.

Make your flexible transition run smoothly by planning ahead.

Let’s say you're a typical office worker. Maybe a programmer, marketer, or graphic designer. One day, an email arrives in your inbox. In big capital letters, the subject line announces, “Flexible work begins tomorrow!”

Do you feel shocked, confused, apprehensive? Hopefully not. If your employer did things right, you’ll feel nothing but excitement and optimism. You’ll know exactly what flexible work means for you and your role. You’ll know where to go, what to expect, and who to contact if you have problems.

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Flexible Working (2021) is a practical guide to organizing work outside the standard nine-to-five. This helpful handbook explores the diverse array of working arrangements possible in the contemporary world.

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Businesses looking for more agile work arrangements
Workers wanting to see life outside the nine-to-five
Anyone curious about the future of work

Über den Autor

Gemma Dale is a human-resources expert, founder of the Work Consultancy, and a lecturer in employment law, organizational behavior and well-being at Liverpool John Moores University Business School. She writes the award-winning blog People Stuff.

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