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Turning convention on its head

In: Future Work

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  • Alison Maitland
  • Peter Thomson

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Which of the following two companies sounds more like yours? FlexCo offers its employees a range of ‘sflexible work arrangements’s. Reduced hours, flexible start and finish times and compressed weeks (four ten-hour days instead of five eight-hour days) are all available. The HR department encourages individuals to talk about their personal situation so that the management and the individual can find a response that suits both. Employees can have paid time off for personal needs and can take it in one-hour slots, for example to attend a school event or have a longer lunch. Chair massages are available when peak work demands push up the stress levels. ‘sOur employees tell us how grateful they are that we offer these arrangements,’s says the head of HR.

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  • Alison Maitland & Peter Thomson, 2014. "Turning convention on its head," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Future Work, edition 2, chapter 0, pages 41-61, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-36716-7_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137367167_3
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