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Tuesday April 26, 2005

Nine day fortnights ?

No I have not lost my limited mathematical ability completely. When I worked at BT and then HR Wallingford we had flexi time. In these times of stress, busy people, crowded roads etc I think flexitime should be considered by management for many reasons. I basically worked at BT from 8am until 5.30pm and got every other Friday off. That is not 'real' flexitime but a version that provides the employer with a longer working day, and the employee with twenty four extra days holiday. At HR it was more flexible and I can understand employees gasping at the abilitiy of employees only having to be during 'core hours' and being able to carry forward a deficit or credit of ten hours to the next month. You could also take 1.5 days off per month.

I cannot believe some kind of flex time is not more openly available to everyone. I think it offers great benefits and in a carefully managed environment could be made to work. It would cut down on crowded trains, roads and mean with flex desk working employers could reduce the amount of office space they need. Of course employees benefit too.

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