Flexible work arrangements (Topical Term)
- Alternate work arrangements
- Broader heading: Hours of labor
Work cat.: Olmsted, B. Creating a flexible workplace, c1989.
Flexible work arrangements : conceptualizations and international approaches, c2002.
Gottlieb, B.H. Flexible work arrangements, c1998.
Encyc. of management, c2006: p. 742-743 (alternate work arrangements, including telecommuting, flexible work hours, and alternate works schedules outside of the traditional 8 to 5 workday)
Business : the ultimate resource, c2002: p. 358 (flexible working practices ... any variation in working hours from the standard nine-to-five working day. The key variants are flextime, which may include a compressed work week, job-sharing, part time employment, comp time, and sabbaticals)
Here are entered works on work arrangements that vary from the standard five-day, forty-hour week spent in a traditional office or workplace. Works on arrangements by which employees can determine their daily arrival and departure times, providing they work a certain number of hours, are entered under Flextime.
Note under Flextime