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Is it the end of the 9 to 5 working day?
Traditional workplace hours of 9am to 5pm are now only the norm for a minority of workers, research suggests. Just 6% of people in the UK now work such hours, a YouGov survey found. Almost half of people worked flexibly with arrangements such as job sharing or compressed hours, allowing them to juggle other commitments, it found.
Anna Whitehouse, a campaigner whose own flexible working request was refused by her employer, said there were still misconceptions about such arrangements. In her case, her employer refused her request for 15 minutes flexibility at the start and end of each day to enable her to drop off and pick up her children from nursery. "They denied it because they said it would open the floodgates for other people to request the same thing." [...] Since then she has started the Flex Appeal, aimed at convincing firms to trial flexible working and also to make people aware of their right to request flexible working.
[...] Polling firm YouGov surveyed over 4,000 adults for the survey, which was commissioned by fast-food chain McDonald's.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by MostCynical on Tuesday August 21 2018, @08:47PM (2 children)
i'd never have put the Australian Governemnt down as "progressive"
Australian Public Servants, even 25 years ago, have been able to work "flexible hours". I used to try and get to work by 7:30am so I could leave by 3. Some in the office arrived at 10, and worked til 6. Anything over 7:35 was "banked" and you could bnk enough to take days off (with approval, but managers were easy to please..)
My current contract says "9 to 5". Pay is better, though..
Unless you have a shop or a phone support line or similar, it shouldn't matter *when* in a a day the work is doene, just that it is done in a timely manner (deadlines are often made up, and no manager has ever read a report handed to them on a Friday afternoon)
"Trust" is often written in a companies "values statement", and painted on walls, but rarely actually practiced.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Immerman on Wednesday August 22 2018, @12:50AM (1 child)
The place I'm working now requires me to punch a timeclock. I always considered the practice rather insulting in the past, but here I work basically whatever hours I want, and the timeclock does make it easy to make sure neither side is getting screwed on the number of hours I'm being paid for, so I've actually acquired an appreciation for it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 23 2018, @12:16AM
This is why I always punch in before I take my morning constitutional.