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“We like to give people the freedom to work where they want, safe in the knowledge that they have the drive and expertise to perform excellently, whether they [are] at their desk or in their kitchen. Yours truly has never worked out of an office, and never will”. This has been quoted by Richard Branson, Founder and Chairman of Virgin Group who worked a lot for the freedom of his staff. Workplace flexibility refers to the changing working patterns that is different from the normal working schedule, allowing employees and employers to make changes to how, where and when a person will work to meet the needs of the individual as well as the business. Flexibility involves job redesign, changes in time, location and the manner in which …show more content…
We need to decide which flexible work practices are best for the organisation and should adopt them. Some of the best practices will assist companies in implementing the optimal workplace flexibility programs. 1) Build a case for business: Set up steps and a clear understanding of how various approaches to workplace flexibility could impact the company and its employees and come up with a mitigation plan if any consequences arises.
2) Provide training skills and resources: Most flexibility programs fail due to lack of training and requisite resources. So, companies must offer training programs to improve skills and knowledge. 3) Be aware of your competition: To make the best out of the workplace flexibility benefits, we should know the talent outside our organisation. This helps to have a wider talent pool to recruit people from. 4) Employee satisfaction: flexibility in work can satisfy employees by increasing employee morale and ensuring job satisfaction. 5) Treating flexibility requests fairly, offering the same solutions to everyone. 6) develop tools to help employees or managers address the flexible work needs; through training. 7) Appropriate technology to help employees perform work outside
“We like to give people the freedom to work where they want, safe in the knowledge that they have the drive and expertise to perform excellently, whether they [are] at their desk or in their kitchen. Yours truly has never worked out of an office, and never will”. This has been quoted by Richard Branson, Founder and Chairman of Virgin Group who worked a lot for the freedom of his staff. Workplace flexibility refers to the changing working patterns that is different from the normal working schedule, allowing employees and employers to make changes to how, where and when a person will work to meet the needs of the individual as well as the business. Flexibility involves job redesign, changes in time, location and the manner in which …show more content…
We need to decide which flexible work practices are best for the organisation and should adopt them. Some of the best practices will assist companies in implementing the optimal workplace flexibility programs. 1) Build a case for business: Set up steps and a clear understanding of how various approaches to workplace flexibility could impact the company and its employees and come up with a mitigation plan if any consequences arises.
2) Provide training skills and resources: Most flexibility programs fail due to lack of training and requisite resources. So, companies must offer training programs to improve skills and knowledge. 3) Be aware of your competition: To make the best out of the workplace flexibility benefits, we should know the talent outside our organisation. This helps to have a wider talent pool to recruit people from. 4) Employee satisfaction: flexibility in work can satisfy employees by increasing employee morale and ensuring job satisfaction. 5) Treating flexibility requests fairly, offering the same solutions to everyone. 6) develop tools to help employees or managers address the flexible work needs; through training. 7) Appropriate technology to help employees perform work outside