MultiTime carries out on-going research into the subject of Flexible Working Hours or flextime.
For example, in 2005, the company won first place award in the U.S. at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Behavioural and Applied Management in Tampa, Florida. This was for research carried out in conjunction with Adelphi University in New York.
More recently to mark our 25th year in business – we have carried out a survey which looks at the connection between employee well-being and flexible working hours. Over 1,000 employees who are on flexitime and are using our VisionTime system throughout the U.K. and Ireland, responded.
The City University London interpreted the results.
The survey looked at the link between satisfaction with working time arrangements and employee well-being. For the employee the survey was confidential.
The method of accessing the questionnaire was by Staff clicking on a link in the VisionTime clocking screen at PCs or Touch Screens.
As this is the system that those employees involved in the survey use each day to record time and to manage their flexible working lives, it was thought to be the most seamless method of their accessing the research. Once on line, each employee could then respond to a series of questions. The questionnaire was divided into various sections, which measure:-
· the participant's actual use of and satisfaction with flexible work arrangements.
· the participant's preferences for whether they like to keep their work and home roles separate. In general, people who like to segment their work and home roles are suited to flexible working hours. Whereas, people who like to integrate them may be more suited to home-working, for example.
· two important aspects when investigating anything to do with work roles - job control and job satisfaction.
· work related well being. This is a scale developed specifically to measure well being in the work place and is used in organisational research across the world. We were trying to link satisfaction with working arrangements to employee well-being, and so used this comprehensive measure developed specifically for the work-place.
Therefore the overall aim of this research was to investigate the key influences in the relationship between flexible working and employee well-being and job control.
Contact MultiTime for details of the outcome at:
0207 495 1221
