Flexible Working - The Concepts
Flexible Working Hours is a working time concept, and through using the concept, employees can balance their personal & working lives with the organisational needs of the workplace. Increasingly, this outcome is referred to as “gaining a work: life balance”. There are several other terminologies used for Flexible Working Hours such as Flexitime or Flextime.
In addition, the term "Flexible Working Arrangements", is now being used as the “umbrella” description to convey flexibility of location, as well as flexibility of working time. So there is quite a lot of terminology attaching to this general subject. Let’s have a look at what these concepts mean:-