Flexible Working Hours: The Missing Link

Flex-Time and its effects on leisure activities

“…Data collected in the area of transpor tation in a community where about 60% of the population is on flexitime has shown a positive response to bus usage. With more people riding buses, the company can get by with 10% fewer buses because peak loads are reduced (Elbing et al, 1975),…”

“…2. permission to take a whole day off from overtime credit as opposed to the half day permitted (Bolton, 1971, p.17). (Cohen and Stein, 1976), whereas, in Germany alone, the number of firms using Flex-Time is over 6,000 (Elbing, 1975).…”

“…Workers report increased personal satisfaction, based on their ability to balance demands of their personal lives with demands of the organi zation. Surveys of individual satisfaction consistently indicate that about 90% of respondents wish to keep or extend the system (Elbing, et al", 1975 Flexitime is designed to recognize that there are people who are born between 15 minutes to an hour late into the world and they will always be 15 to 60 minutes late for everything. So they just can't get started early in the morning.…”

“…Flexitime appears to be a readily acceptable, workable arrangement to be incorporated in today's workweek. The critical element is the choice a person is allowed to make as to when he works and for how long Self-control is considered by Maslow, McGregor, and Hertzberg to be generally a more effective and predictable motivator of high performance than external controls (Elbing, et al, 1975), Given the freedom, within limits, to decide when he will work and when he will not, a person will approach work more ready for it and with a stronger commitment to do i t well than when he is told when to work.…”

“…Given the opportunity to take responsibility for maintenance of the pro duction flow in an increasing number of instances, employees have been able to introduce flexibility without increasing unit costs, despite some increase in total cost (Elbing, et al,, 1975)o…”