These are referred to collectively as ‘telecommuting’ in this toolkit. A wide range of terms refer to working at different locations, including ‘mobile working’, ‘distributed work’, ‘virtual teams’ and ‘telework’. You may work at a location other than the official place of work. It can include ‘flexitime’ arrangements where an employee can work extra time over several days or weeks and then reclaim those hours as time off. You may work approved overtime and be compensated by time-in-lieu. For example, a forty-hour week may be worked at the rate of ten hours per day for four days instead of eight hours a day for five days. You may work the same number of weekly (or fortnightly or monthly) working hours, compressed into a shorter period. This is where you may vary your start and finish times. Part-time work, however, does offer flexibility in the capacity for someone to work even though they may not be able to work full-time. While part-time work is currently considered to be a flexible working arrangement, the realities of part-time work are often much the same as those of full-time work and may not offer much flexibility around time or location of work. These arrangements fall into the same category as annual leave and personal leave, in that they are standard employee rights at work. For example, someone taking time off as carer’s leave, compassionate leave or parental leave is not the same as working flexibly. Managers can sometimes confuse some relatively minor and ordinary work adjustments with the idea of flexible working arrangements. Combining and sharing roles, for example: four days in an operational role and one day in a role that allows for remote working.
There are numerous examples of scheduled roles with access to flexibility. Flexibility is becoming increasingly important for all employees as employees and managers balance competing priorities in life.įlexible working is not just for office workers. Flexible working arrangements usually encompass changes to the hours, pattern and location of work. A flexible work arrangement is an agreement between a workplace and an employee to change the standard working arrangement to better accommodate an employee’s commitments out of work.
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