Flexibility: Flextime
- Success Story
(SAMPLE – to be replaced by Our Company
Here are two examples of how flextime has been used successfully at Our
Company:
Gloria Hernandez,
Benefits Specialist, Human
Resources
Gloria joined Our Company seven years ago and last year
approached her manager, Gail Quintel, with a request to flex her hours.
She wanted to come in at 10 a.m. each day rather than 8 a.m. Gloria
talked to Gail briefly before filling out her FWA Proposal Form and
learned that Gail’s supervisor had recently asked her to review and
revise the strategic plan for the department. The team had avoided strategic planning because of
lack of time and so many other pressing priorities.
In
her proposal form, Gloria suggested she might be able to use the hours
later in the day to tackle the review and revision of the strategic
plan. She also pointed out that she could provide HR services for Our
Firm’s second shift, a population that previously had to come in to
work early to meet with someone in benefits.
Gloria had been a solid and consistent contributor over the years and
Gail thought her request made sense. Now, a year into the arrangement
everyone is pleased with the way things are working out.
The revised strategic plan is finished, employees on the second
shift feel good about knowing there is someone in benefits on duty for
two hours while they are working and Gloria is able to take care of
things in the morning that had previously been making her late for work.
Flextime in this case was a win-win-win.
Stan Stone, Trainer,
Training Department
Stan was an early bird and was most productive in the early morning
hours. He asked to change his work hours from the 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. he
had been working to a 6:30 a.m. – 3:30.flexitime schedule on the days
he wasn’t conducting full-day trainings. He said he would use the
quiet time between 6:30 and 8 to design trainings and put together
PowerPoint presentations and other materials.
Stan’s manager, Toby Tobias, was skeptical at first and was concerned
that Stan wouldn’t be around after 3:30.
But Stan had thought the arrangement out carefully when he put
together his flexible work arrangement proposal form.
He had already talked to Dawn Norris, another of the trainers,
who wanted to work from 9:00 to 6:00 on days she wasn’t conducting
full-day trainings. Between the two of them they could cover the hours
of 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. in case anyone called or dropped in, extending
the length of the service day. They also agreed to stagger their lunch
hours and breaks to provide more continuous coverage.
Toby agreed to try the arrangement for three months and evaluate its
effectiveness at the end of that time. That was two years ago.
The arrangement has been working fine for everyone and continues.
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