This document discusses flexible work options (FWO) and their benefits. It notes that maintaining a work-life balance is difficult, especially for women employees. Many companies now offer FWO like flexible schedules, telecommuting, part-time work and job sharing to improve employee satisfaction and commitment while reducing absenteeism. FWOs can benefit both employees and organizations by increasing morale and productivity while retaining talented staff. The document analyzes the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities of implementing FWOs.

1. Flexible Work Options:
Enhancing the Quality of Work Life
Chinchu viyyath

2. Introduction
• It is very difficult to maintain balance
between the personnel life and the work
life of people.
• The women employees suffer more than
the men employees.
• They need to look after their in family
members and at the same time they need
carry out their work properly

3. • When employee is under stress it will affect
the work also.
• The family problems leads them tensed and
which may leads to misbehavior and conflict
among the employees.
• Many companies are providing flexible work
time to solve this problem and to enhance the
quality of their work

4. Summary of the case
• Federal technologies is a leading player
in the software development industry
with more than 800 people across the
nation.
• They introduce a new concept of FWO .
• Bajaj also providing its employee the
facility of telecommunication, which help
to balance between personnel life and
work life.

5. • Another company introduce a new
concept which helps the women
employees to attend their domestic
chores at home and take care of their
elders and children.
• Some other FWO are part time jobs,
job sharing, partial retirement
scheme, reduced work life, leave
option etc.

6. SWOT Analysis
Strength
• Employee satisfaction
• Increased morale
• Make employees more committed
towards work.
• Low employee turn over
• Less absenteeism.

7. • Good coordination and smooth
transfer of work.
• Good atmosphere
• Achievement of organizational
goal
• Retention of talented employees

8. Weakness
• Chance of conflict among workers
• Difficulty in decentralization
• Salary sharing
• Non corporation
• Difficulty in introduction of
motivational technique

9. Opportunity
• Increased profit
• Better image to the concern

10. Question for discussion
1. The strategies used to enhance the quality of
work life:
compressed work weeks, part time
jobs, job sharing, phased and partial
retirement schemes, voluntary reduced work
time, leave options, flexi place, annualized
hours, work in longer shift, allow employees
to work from home.

11. 2. Possible ways in which employees and
organizations might benefit from FWO:
• compressed weeks allow employees to work
in a long shifts, so they can have the rest of
the week days off.
• Phased and partial retirement option which
help the senior employees work for fewer
hours a day and postpone their retirement.

12. Conclusion
By providing FWO the employees can
balanced their work life and personnel life,
which help them to reduce their stress and it
made them more productive which help the
organization to achieve their goal