Getting it right depends on what kind of role you are in
If you are a blue-collar worker in an industry that operates in shifts, for example, flexibility sounds less like nirvana and more like chaos. For low-wage employees in restaurants and call centres, predictability is much more important than flexibility. Various American cities have introduced laws that, among other things, require employers to give workers a set amount of notice when setting their shift rotas.
Certainty matters less for other workers. Research conducted by Donald Sull at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his co-authors found that predictable schedules had a marked effect on retention for blue-collar employees but did not affect white-collar ones. For desk-bound workers, the question is different: less whether flexible scheduling is appealing, more whose version of it prevails.
If workers balk at the boss’s version of flexible scheduling, managers have a different worry: that giving employees too much control over their hours can backfire. Asynchronous working, which involves individuals contributing to a project in their own time, is all very well. But if teams are to function effectively then they sometimes have to work as a group. Managers can have perfectly legitimate reasons to contact employees at odd hours and to expect an immediate response.
Ireland Latest News, Ireland Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
The Apprentice winner is getting short-changed by £159,320, all thanks to inflationReality TV prize pots are now worth much less than they used to be, thanks to the rising price of goods
Read more »
Love Island’s Will Young admits causing filming chaos after “getting pissed” in the villa'We had our tops off.'
Read more »
Two Greater Manchester areas 'getting ahead of the game' on electric chargingStockport and Bury councils have signed multi-million deals for the installation of dozens of new charging points
Read more »
Great Expectations Is Getting The Peaky Blinders Treatment – Here’s What You Need To KnowOlivia Colman, Fionn Whitehead and Shalom Brune-Franklin lead the cast of Steven Knight's new Charles Dickens adaptation for the BBC.
Read more »