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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