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Today’s employees have become ever demanding for a flexible working plan that allows them to "work and play" at the same time in a day or week. The "smart work style" has been on the rise since the advent of technology. Whether working from home to working in pairs, a flexible working lifestyle offers most employees the needed space for work productivity.
Work schedules of employees range from full-time to part-time and much more. In all of these schedules, employees are expected to put up work that results in productivity and not necessarily to work hard.
In this post, you will find work schedules that aid a flexible working lifestyle for employees. Employers of labor can adopt any of these work schedules to aid productivity at the workplace.
Alternative Shifts
Having employees work long hours in the day has been shown to reduce work productivity and a positive attitude to work on several occasions.
Shift work is a technique that functions in organizations that carry on business seven days a week and 24 hours a day. In this work style, an employee works a few times a day and a few days in the week, giving him time to attend to other issues. For instance, James works from 8 am to 8 pm every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday; on Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, Williams takes over James's shift from 8 pm to 8 am.
Shift work allows employees to rest a good part of the week and is a suitable work schedule that provides a flexible lifestyle.
Job Sharing
Job sharing has been in vogue as far back as creation. Teamwork is the ideal picture every employer paints for their clients and customers. There has been an increased intake of persons who work effectively with teams than those who don’t. Also, over a billion dollars have been invested over the years by employers and employees as a whole to provide proper training for teamwork and leadership.
Job sharing has its ups and downs for employees. An advantage is job sharing offers workers a flexible lifestyle—the idea of having a partner who could work on a job while you deal with the other. This way, the job will be completed quickly. The disadvantage is job sharing might lead to a clash of interests when trying to get a job done; this, in turn, can slow work productivity in the long and short run.
Working from Home
Perhaps the newest work schedule option and the most flexible. Working from home involves providing value to the company while at the comfort of your home.
Research has shown that over 80% of employees prefer the work from home option to any other work schedule.
Working from home offers the best flexibility; you can pick up your child from school, make dinner, watch late-night movies and still take that call from your boss, seal that deal with the client, get the goods delivered to the customer, and so much more.
However, working from home has its challenges, one of which is the lack of work resources to perform effectively. This challenge is mostly associated with professionals.
Part-Time Job
Part-time jobs also offer a flexible working schedule for employees. The part-time job is similar to the alternative shift—some have even mistaken one for the other.
There are different definitions or specifications for part-time jobs, with business experts calculating various types of work hours for the job. But a generally accepted definition by the business world is a job where a worker is made to work less than 30 hours a week. This differentiates the part-time job from the alternative shift job.
This work schedule option is the most adopted by a majority of employers today.
Temporary employee
The temporary employee is hired to help the employer fill vacant roles without hiring a full-time employee.
Although the employee doesn't work as a full staff, they are a part of the organization. Since the temporary employee isn't a permanent staff, this working schedule gives employees the flexibility to attend to other issues.
The temporary employee is similar to the part-time employee and the alternative shift employee. One of the differences is; while in the case of the part-time, the temporary employee has work times exceeding 30 minutes, in the case of alternative shift, the temporary employee doesn’t have another worker who replaces the employee in a shift.
In Summary
Work schedules with more flexibility have been the vogue since the start of the 21st century. The benefits are evident in the output derived from employees when one of these flexible work styles is adopted.
