Flexibility:  Compressed Workweeks - Troubleshooting

No matter how well a flexible option is planned and implemented, from time to time breakdowns do occur. Here are some common breakdowns that managers or employees might experience once a compressed workweek arrangement is operating.

Click on any of the potentially challenging situations for some suggestions on how to more effectively manage ongoing flexible solutions.

You can find additional compressed workweek troubleshooting guidance in the online Compressed Workweek Training.


  ASSESS
whether department schedules need to be changed
  PLAN
for consistent interactions
with those on traditional
work schedules
  PREPARE
to develop proposals and review them based on the impacts on the business

-- More than half of the
   department does not work
   on Mondays and Fridays
   because these are
   compressed workers’ 
  
scheduled  “flex” days
-- Department employees
   who work a traditional
   schedule are beginning to
   resent their team members
   who work a compressed
   schedule
-- For the first time in 2 years,
   customer complaints have
   begun to increase

-- Communication breakdowns
   are occurring between
   employees who work
   compressed workweeks and
   those who work traditional
   schedules
-- Communication and team
   cohesiveness remain at an
   all-time high among team
   members who work on site
   5 days per week
-- Team members who are
   using compressed work
   weeks are very satisfied
   with their arrangement
   except for the
   communication issues

--
Administrative employees in
   the Legal Department have
   successfully completed one
   year of compressed
   workweek schedules with
   superior results
-- A few of the lawyers and
   paralegals have requested
   compressed schedules too
-- Due to the client-facing
   nature of  these roles,
   senior leadership is very
   uncomfortable


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