Impact of flexible working hours on employee performance

Employees are the asset of any company and help to thrive business in global platform. Therefore, employee satisfaction, talent retention and their management are prime responsibilities of firms to stay competitive in marketplace.

Flexible working is recognized as a successful factor to accomplish a better work-life balance. Huge number of employees conveyed that flexible working help them in lessening and managing stress levels. There is strong correlation between the flexible working and performance benefits. In flexible working environment, employees give their best and it enhances productivity of organization.

There are numerous ways by which employees can do work in flexibly such as part time working, term time working, job-shares, home-working, compressed hours and flexitime.

There are many benefits of flexible working hours:

The advantages of flexible working hours to businesses include being able to hold onto valuable staff, retain great talent pool, decrease absenteeism, increasing commitment from employees and improving output.  A business might also be able to extend opening hours due to the wider availability of the workforce.

Flexible working ease employees to make good work life balance so that they have more time to spend with their families or undertake hobbies. With employer permission, they can travel to work in odd hours to avoid rush hour traffic. This helps in arriving to work more refreshed.  For those employees who are allowed to work at home all or part of the week, there are the benefits of reduced fuel and motor maintenance costs.


Besides benefits, there are some drawbacks also.

If employees are working in flexible hours in office without a supervisor, they may face some work obstacles as they may be unable to take the initiative or need direction with their duties.  Employees who are not personally inspired may struggle to complete task. It may directly impact on output of organization. Another disadvantage is that there is not effective communication and team working which may adversely effect on performance of employee as well as production of company.

It is well recognized that flexible work arrangements may have positive results. It reduces stress because employees working flexibly are more satisfied with their jobs, more satisfied with their lives, and experience better work-family balance. They are highly promised and do not easily get motivated to switch into new job and they enjoy working with their company. 

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