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6. What are the benefits of part time working?
- There are great increases in communication
- Some times core staff is efficient so costs are saved
- There are no savings in childcare
- During quiter periods, part-time workers are employed to meet the needs of the employer.
7. Hot desking benefits?
- Less office space needed
- Better relationships between employees
- In one location all the time
- Better heating systems in offices
8. Why are employment practices changing?
- More employment in heavy industry
- The end of demarcation (a process that separated different types of work and assigned them to members of different trade unions);
- Increase in Trade Union Power
- Less women working
9. Job sharing benefits?
- They will have a smaller range of expertise
- It can't be split any way the employer wants
- ets professional workers continue in employment, when otherwise they may have had to take a career break.
- Allows people to have less responsibility so they are less stressed
10. Hot desking problems?
- Wider variety of locations to visit
- Get to meet new people
- breakdown of workplace relationships, and can feel disconnected from the organisation
- Less cold food
11. Overall benefits
- Businesses can expand & contract their workforce quickly in response to a rise/fall in the demand
- Efficiency rates are never changed
- Workforce are always motivated
- Temporary employees bring in little knowledge to firm
12. What are benefits of homeworking to the employee?
- More time to see employees
- Get free broadband from employers
- Commuting time saved
- Less time to see family
13. Overall drawbacks
- The company's reputation will increase due to zero hour contracts being issued
- Limited range of ideas being sprung back and forth is confusing
- Communication errors
- Innovation levels will increase
14. What are benefits of homeworking to the business?
- Subsidies from Government
- Motivation levels increased
- Less overheads due to less office space used
- Commuting time saved