Higher business management

• Flextime

  Employees choose their own hours as long as they work their contracted number of hours per day/week/month
• Impact of flextime

  + Employees can't be disciplined for poor timekeeping 

  + Employees can work around family commitments 

  • Difficult to arrange formal meetings unless a 'core time' is set when all staff must be in the office
• Home-working

  Employees work from home but keep in touch via technology such as email 

  • Staff can visit the office for meetings or to use hot desks
• Impact of home-working

  + Employees can save on travel time and get more work done 

  + Organisations can reduce office space, cutting costs 

  • Difficult for managers to supervise the quality of work
  • Relationships with colleagues and managers can break down