In a workplace context, I love flextime. Flextime means that employees are able to structure their schedules in ways convenient to them, while still working a required weekly amount and/or working around a fixed set of core hours. Some people use flextime to work extra hours four days a week and get three day weekends. Other people use flextime to frontload or backload their daily schedules so that they can get home to take care of their kids or so they can sleep late after nights of partying. Some people just use flextime to make their hours a little odd so they avoid rush hours. Whatever the personal reasons, the ability to work flexible hours is a tremendously good thing and I want to reward companies that offer this feature.
Now a lot of companies advertise that they offer flextime but when it comes down to reality, most of their employees can’t actually take advantage of it. They either work too many hours (now also illegal by the way – see previous post) or they are considered “essential” and are required to be present at specific hours. It’s not going to be enough to “offer” flextime. My reward will scale based on how many employees are actually taking advantage of it.
Companies that offer flextime work schedules for employees will be eligible for tax breaks. These tax breaks will scale up based on the number of employees taking advantage of the flextime program.
To all companies that offer flextime…you rock!
As always I remain your all-powerful and benevolent Queen of the World,
Marisa
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