The document discusses several alternative working schedules including compressed work weeks, flexible working hours, job sharing, telecommuting, and part-time work. Compressed work weeks allow full-time work to be completed in fewer than five days. Flexible working hours give employees choice in daily work timing. Job sharing divides one full-time job between two people. Telecommuting allows working from home using technology. Part-time work is less than the standard 40-hour week. Each alternative comes with benefits like more flexibility and time off as well as challenges like difficulty separating work and personal life.

1. Alternative Working
Schedules
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2. Examples of Alternative Working
Schedules
•Compressed Work Weeks
•Flexible Working Hours
•Job Sharing
•Telecommuting
•Part-time work
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3. Compressed Work Weeks
- Is any scheduling of work that
allows a full-time job to be
completed in fewer than the
standard five days
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4. Pros:
• Additional time off for the workers
• Lower employee absenteeism and
improved recruiting of new
employees
Cons:
• Individuals can experience increased
fatigue from the extended workday
and family adjustment problems
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5. • Work scheduling problems and
customer complaints
• Occasional union opposition and laws
requiring payment of overtime for
work exceeding 8 hours
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6. Flexible Working hours
- also known as flextime
- Gives individuals a daily choice in the
timing of their work commitments
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7. Pros:
• Helps reduce absenteeism, tardiness
and turnover for the organization
• Contribute to higher levels of
organizational commitment and
performance by workers
• Reduces commuting time and gives
opportunities to meet personal
responsibilities
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8. Cons:
• The effectiveness of a flextime work
schedule depends on the size of a
company and its hours of operation.
• While an employer that is open day
and night, such as a hospital, can
accommodate flextime staff, a
business that is only open from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. each day provides
little room for an alternative work
schedule.
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9. • Scheduling meetings with flextime
employees is also difficult.
• Supervisors who manage flextime
employees might end up working
during different hours of the day,
which can lead to communication
problems.
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10. Job Sharing
- One full-time job is assigned to two
or more persons who then divide the
work according to agreed-upon
hours.
- Work sharing- when employees
agree to work fewer hours to avoid
layoffs
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11. Pros:
• Employees who want to maintain a
job in a professional field but are
interested in only working part-time
often use job sharing. For example,
two doctors might share a single
physician position at a medical clinic
in which each works at least 20
hours per week.
• Job sharing allows the two
employees to trade hours as needed.
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12. • As the employees become more
aware of each other’s strengths, they
can complete their work more
efficiently, which increases
productivity for the employer.
Cons:
• While job sharing employees
generally pro-rate the salary of a full
time position according to the
amount of time each employee
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13. works, the employer might still need
to provide certain benefits to both
employees, which may increase his
costs.
• Job sharing can also pose difficulties
if the employees do not
communicate well, are absent during
meetings, have scheduling conflicts
or disagree as to how to complete
their tasks.
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14. Telecommuting
- Is work done at home or from a
remote location using computers and
advanced telecommunications
- Co-working center- a place where
telecommuters go to share an office
environment outside of home and
with the company of others
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15. Pros:
• Increased productivity
• Less distractions
• The freedom to be their own boss
• Benefit of having more time for
themselves
• More flexibility, the comforts of home
and the choice of location consistent
with the worker’s lifestyle
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16. Cons:
• Difficulty in separating work and
personal life
• Less time for family
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17. Part-Time Work
Kinds of Part-time work:
1.Temporary part-time work-
employees works only when needed
and for less than the standard 40-
hour week
• Involuntary part-time workers-
employees who prefer a full-time
work schedule but do not have
access to one
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18. 2. Permanent part-time work or
permatemps- considered a
“permanent” member of the
workforce although working fewer
hours than the standard 40-hour
week
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19. Pros:
• Supplement other jobs
• Capacity to hold multiple jobs
• Choice of less than full-time work
Cons:
• Work burdens become stressful when
having multiple jobs
• Performance may suffer on the job
• Spillover effect to family and leisure
time
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