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Flex in the City

Flex Work Options

Some of the most common flexible work options in practice are:

  • Telecommuting: employee who does work at home at least two days a week on a computer that is linked to their office.
  • Flex Work Time: flexible working hours during the workweek. Sometimes based on established a mandatory core hours (ex. 9 to 3) with flexible start and end times.
  • Compressed week: employee works longer hours in a day but fewer days in the week, i.e. 4-10's, where an employee works 10 hours per day, 4 days per week, 9-80's, where an employee works 9 hours per day, and every other week earns an additional day off.
  • Job sharing: Two or more employees split a 40-hour workweek job, sharing in the tasks and responsibilities.

Of course many of these can be mixed and matched for tailor-made flexibility!

Telecommuting is for many, the closest to the ideal job. In fact, it is often one of the most enticing, and sought after job characteristics of today's most in demand job seeking professionals.

Flextime has become a widespread and popular scheduling option. U.S. employees on flextime schedules more than doubled between the late '80s and 2005, with approximately 43% of the U.S. full-time workforce enjoying flexibility in their start and departure times. Flextime is also gaining popularity worldwide, for instance, 29% of German businesses offer flextime to their employees.