Topic: Flexible Work Schedule - page 5. (Read 870 times)

I am sure that flexible work must be realized in a pandemic situation like now. So workers can do work at home, and get optimal working hours,
because there is no need to waste time on the road where usually several people are quite far from home and work place. Flexible work can not
only save time, but can save money on transportation costs. Therefore, in a pandemic situation, work should be done at home, because in addition
to preventing the spread of the virus, Flexible work schedule has many benefits.

So you will rely your livelihood for it? And what if there's no paying bounty campaign at the moment as almost all of them are not paying right now? Can you afford not to eat? Its so hard to rely on that option so id rather find another alternative and maybe I will just skip bounty and look for bettee opportunity.

I consider participation in bounty campaign as flexible work schedule, I can post anytime I want anywhere I want, you can give a maximum output because you are working on your pace, working at the comfort of your home at this time of pandemic, is such a blessing, but of course you have to also beat the deadline and you have to motivate yourself, even if it's relaxing to work at home. 

What’s “beneficial” for you, the employee, might not be beneficial for your employer, and it also depends on what kind of work you do. But, your employer should find out how to measure productivity for his/her workers weekly, and compare those weeks per month by month basis.

For your course assignment, talk to small companies, and ask for their data on employee productivity before the lockdown, and during the lockdown. Compare data of the most productive employees across different levels from top to bottom.

I quite disagree on the last two sentences. Its not that hard to communicate, coordinate and express our ideas or statement via online, now us having almost all the suitable resouces provided by the famous internet. It is not that hard to make a presentation or report if we want to express anything. I once work from home during this pandemic, (actually I want to resign but they didn't allow me) so they suggested work at home but I still need to visit the company at least once a week. So I can say it is not totally work from home, but I did work at home still.

I worked in a manufacturing industry and every meeting I always prepare a report regarding our topic so  for them to easily understand my concern. So, it is not that hard, you just need to be prepared. And I can say, working from home having flexible schdule is the best, simply because you are in control of everything. And also less time consuming especially if your workplace is far from your apartment, no traffic that would cost you 4 hrs (yah, it's Philippines).

And so the main advantage of having flexible schedule is you will become more productive. I even studied a certain course online back then I remember (not related to crypto) 12 hrs. a week, 3 hrs every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday every night.

Treating your work as your hobby that will bring more enjoyment to you, whatever setup you have the desire of completing
your task will always a priority for you.

It's nice even you are working inside your house and the atmosphere is not the same but the work to accomplished is the
same from what it's needed. Try to keep your mindsets positively it helps a lot.

Not really, that hot cup of coffee actually made me dizzy and sleepy af while listening to a lecture, we recently had online exams and everyone just cheated getting cent percent marks and assignments are all same etc. It feels heavenly to be on bed and doing all the stuffs but it is also devaluing the leisure time, if you are in leisure all the time, how will you go back to normal mode when it's time?! That will be really hard for a lot of people.

Exactly, the expenses that are mostly covered by the company that you are working on is being shouldered by you, especially that one too, tracking software is just a legitimate malware. I think the only time that a flexible work schedule will work is when you are a business owner or a freelancer.

Working from home killed productivity tbh.

I get that it's great working from home and not having to commute, but if I owned any office related business, in what way can you verify that work is actually getting done without literally having to babysit employees and monitor their every move? I know companies will install tracking software on business computers, and I would hate to be using something like that at home.

I have always been in favour of a flexible work schedule, at the end of the day the one that is paying you cares only about two things, that you do the work that you have been hired to do and that you do it in time, as long as you can do both of those two things then you should be able to do your work whenever it suits you, this is great because if you have a family emergency you can attend it knowing that you are not going to be fired or anything as long as you finish your job, also you can work as fast as you can, finish everything you could need to do during the week and then rest for the remainder of the week.

For me, to make our time feel less does not mean that we have to make our work quickly finish. but what we need to do is consider all work as a form of a favorite hobby or in other words love your job, wherever and under any conditions.

a cup of hot coffee, and a cigarette to start work in front of a computer screen. that's what makes everything feel comfortable and flexible. whatever the pandemic conditions are getting more and more unclear, we are still fine with doing every day job from home.

Compared to the past situation of the 9-5 man, the coronavirus pandemic introducing different working modalities offered more humane work life for us salarymen. I believe this is a good step towards a much more ethical working society. It offers more benefits to the employee with little to no drawbacks on the employer's end, which is really good.

Working from home and for objectives is the best suited to my lifestyle. Although I work in Marketing in Social Media I have a lot of work at home in this time of pandemic such as shopping for groceries and other jobs at home. I must make a schedule of weekly activities to accomplish my tasks. I share your idea that there is a saving in transport but the commitment is great. Sometimes I am exhausted but happy to comply with "Home and work" in a good operation.

Working with flexible time is one of the best things that someone can ever meet as they work whether it's work from home or work on site. But mostly, this is being applied on a work from home setup.
Many companies are starting to have this setup and they're making their employees do as it eases them and make them more productive.

Flexible work was something like this in my office: Cut work 50/50 and only come to work half a week.
Well honestly it was very enjoyable experience for me to visit office only 2 or 3 days a week. My sleeping routine increased a lot, even my skin became far better.
But not all people were like me: Some of my friends were arguing about working at home cause they were forced to work far more hours than usual.

I think I would still love and take flexible work options even I get paid less than usual. If I could sleep more mornings in week days especially. I would be far more motivated to work.

This has been the best solution during pandemic, but I also believe for that its not that productive compare to the normal work schedule but those companies who are doing this right now are just trying to survive, and doing everything they can to remain in-operation. There are some jobs that requires less supervision, and that can work on flexible schedule, but I think those in critical working station, they still need to put extra effort on going work as much as possible.

Flexible working schedule is fine for me as long as the company have the strong implementation, a proper planning on everything so people can work and follow all the guidelines. In my place, a work from home schedule seems to be more possible during these time of pandemic, though we are slowly getting back into a face to face meetings and work schedule.

There's always a difference because we arent really get used to it since from the start when everything is still normal or before this pandemic came.Nothing beats out when
someone do work up into a real working place and have some face to face interactions or simply you do your job on a operational kind of point not just on sitting in front
of your pc and you are right that when it comes to productivity then its totally different when its unsupervised or no one do watch you but somehow we do need
to deal with the new normal and this is why we do have this kind of set-up or arrangement, yes, its odd but better to deal with it.

Its a complicated topic, It obviously doesnt suit all industries but IMO
I really like the idea of having a choice of how to structure my working
week and balancing my work life and personal life.

At the moment it doesnt feel balanced

Work: 9am to 5.30pm
Commute: 8.15am to 9am and 5.30pm to 6.15pm
Lunch: 1 hour

My time away from the house and in work mode per day is 10 hours
[including commute and lunch]
Sleep 8 hours leaves 6 hours of the day where I get to choose what
to do.

I would happily work longer days to get a full day off either Friday or
Monday and have a 3 day block to myself.

Working from home is a new discussion brought in by COVID-19, it has
its advantages and disadvantages. he introverts love it and the
extraverts are struggling. There is in most cases no choice, it is imposed
by COVID restrictions and employers.

I would like to think that employees would have a choice how and when
to work from home, work very early from early morning to early afternoon
for example so long as the tasks get completed and help employees
stay motivated.

Just a few thoughts.

Comparing work and online class is not perfect because not every children has the same kind of interest in the studying so they tends to focus on other things where there is a chance but work is not the same, its the responsibility given to the individual so they will surely complete it more sooner than the workplace to get more leisure time.

As an introvert, nothing attracts me more than working/studying from home, but the brutal truth is, home is mostly luxury, we got bedrooms with nice beds, and as time progresses we become lazy and then we start to ignore important points because no one can see us, and hence we will do activities like drinking coffee while listening to a lecture or play games by putting the lecture in minimize mode. But I do value my freedom a lot as well, I like offline works because it adds pressure on us which makes us ignited and energizes us by making the laziness go away but yeah I would never prefer to study/work in an environment where there is complete authority of someone else and my freedom isn't respected.