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posted by chromas on Tuesday August 21 2018, @08:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-a-way-to-make-a-living dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @08:57PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @08:57PM (#724378)

    One place I worked told me when I started about the flexible hours, with just a requirement that everyone was present for a shorter block of hours in the middle of every day and worked the same total hours. It was quite clearly bullshit though because I was soon berated by the boss for arriving at 9:05 am! Clearly "flexible hours" means you work whatever hours your boss thinks are necessary, which may not be the hours *you* want to work!

    It was quite a shit place to work though.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 21 2018, @09:41PM (2 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday August 21 2018, @09:41PM (#724394)

    I have worked for some self-centred arseholes like that too.

    If fact I worked for one guy who, when I told him I was going home said "Home? You are home".

    He also couldn't understand why he couldn't keep staff, which was funny.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @10:49PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @10:49PM (#724440)

      I think he posted in this thread somewhere.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @10:51PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @10:51PM (#724441)

      He also couldn't understand why he couldn't keep staff, which was funny.

      Those types usually can't, can they? If someone tries to tell them why, that's because they're "not a team player".