The Negatives of Flexible Work Schedules
Flexible work schedules offer employees a degree of freedom in deciding how they work, but they also come with drawbacks such as risk of burnout, issues with family, friends, and co-workers, communication challenges, and availability constraints for meetings.
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THE NEGATIVES SIDES OF THE FLEXIBLE WORK SCHEDULE
What is flexibility ? A work practice certain degree of freedom in deciding how their work will be done and how they will coordinate their schedule arrangements with those of other employees. that allows employees a
4 examples of flexible working schedule arrangements job sharing flextime compressed work week (part-time contract) telecommuting
THE NEGATIVES SIDES OF FLEXIBLE WORK
Risk of burnout working long hours for consecutive days in a row leaving employees susceptible to errors slow down productivity in the workplace moody behavior towards co-workers
Issues with family, friends and co-workers question whethertheemployeehas a seriousjob Difficultiestoadapt toflexible work schedules envious co-workers stressfulsituation friction between teammembers on eligibility negative impact in case of co-workers not being able tohandle extraworkload
Communication only virtual communication, lack of face to face interaction difficulty in communicating with team members who work from home difficult to monitor and assess an individual s contribution to the team lost of a sense of belonging to a team
Availability need advance notice for meetings that occur during hours employees aren't normally scheduled to work worker is not available to co-workers and clients during designated hours
Lost of productivity Some forms of flexible working like hot desking are synonymous with lost of productivity
Health stress levels immune system reduces depression anxiety suicide
Impact on lifestyle alcohol abuse because of too much stress resort to comfort food social isolation problem with work-life balance reduced sleeping time
The different types of working arrangements are supposed to have positive sidesbut the negative sides that exist in some instances can t be ignored
Lexique Words Definition of words Organize our work planning Schedule arrangements Alternative work schedule in which two employees voluntarily share the responsibilities of one full time job Job sharing Non-traditional work scheduling practice which allows full- time employees to choose their individual starting and quitting times Alternative work arrangement where a standard workweek is reduced to fewer than five days Flextime Compressed work week working at home by using a computer terminal electronically linked to one's place of employment. Telecommuting technical developments and data arising from environmental monitoring and assessment, principles in the design of monitoring systems, and the use of monitoring data in assessing the consequences of natural resource management and pollution risks. office organization system which involves multiple workers using a single physical work station or surface during different time period Monitor and asses Hot desking
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