Flexible workforce
- Created by: evemorrison
- Created on: 07-12-18 08:26
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- Flexible workforce
- Designed to help employees balance work and home life
- Methods
- Flexitime
- Part time working
- Most popular
- Term time working
- Career breaks
- Job sharing
- Mobile working
- Shift swapping
- Annual hours contracts
- Working from home
- Advantages
- Allows a business to expand and contract quickly in response to demand
- Wasteful to employ permanent worker to do a few specialist jobs
- Temp staff cheaper to employ
- Don't need to offer benefits or holidays
- Employers not responsible for training temp workers
- Employing workers who job share may allow business to operate more efficiently
- 1 works through day, 1 works evening, meaning they can respond to clients over a longer period.
- Disadvantages
- Temp workers have less loyalty to the business
- Outsourced work can be of poorer quality
- Damages their reputation with customers
- Lack of team morale if peripheral staff are constantly changing
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