Flexible Working Hours: Worthwhile or Not?

May 6, 2008 @ Pawel Brodzinski on Software Project Management from Pawel Brodzinski

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I hear that question a lot during interviews.

What’s your working hours here?

And my answer is always the same.

Whichever suit you fine.

Of course flexible work-time brings some issues. It will be harder to organize meeting when you have in the team a person who starts at 7am and another who starts at noon if you’re lucky. It can happen that you’ll end up with sleep lovers only and no one would react early in the morning. You won’t predict exactly when your colleagues will be at work.

But these are rather small issues when compared with making people a bit happier. People able to wake up late if they like that. People able to go on errands for themselves during workday whenever they need. You can’t count that in money. It’s hard to verify productivity growth. But making people a happier always works.

There’s one trap here. Flexi hours are often a name for working overtime. Then, well, it’s not so good idea. I prefer to tell honestly: sometimes we do work overtime. It happens. We don’t treat as a normal situation but it happens from time to time. And we don’t call it flexi time.

As far as a deal is fair it is definitely worthwhile. Especially when you work in IT environment where you can find more people who appreciate freedom. If it doesn’t kill your work processes, go for it.


This article is syndicated from Pawel Brodzinski on Software Project Management . The original article is available here. Read more in Pawel Brodzinski on Software Project Management, Project Management News .

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