Importance of Flexible Working Hours in Company's Policy

Academic skills part 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................3
Theme: Flexible working hour should be a part company's policy.............................................5
Theme: Total number of flexible working hours in a week.........................................................6
Theme: No flexible working hours benefit at tight deadlines......................................................8
Theme: Tight working schedules decreases the quality of work.................................................8
Theme: Flexible time is the best method of flexible working hours.........................................10
Theme: Completing daily targets on specific time is challenging for the employees under
FWC...........................................................................................................................................11
Theme: Flexible working condition allows enough time to make strong employees relation. .12
Theme: Employee feels better regarding their jobs under flexible time....................................13
Theme: Unsupportive leader as a key challenge of the flexible working practices...................14
Theme: Result-only work environment is best strategy to maintain flexible working hours....15
Theme: Positive effect of flexible working hours on career progression of employees............16
Theme: Company provides training of flexible work arrangements to employees...................17
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................18
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................19
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................20

INTRODUCTION
In the present era, if company really wants to achieve its goals and objectives, then they
need to consider problems of their employees and provide them flexible working hours schedule
facility. The report will prepare the questionnaire in which total 13 question are asked to the 30
employees of the M&S company. On the basis of this questionnaire the report will interpret the
situation of the company and their employees and whether the company is providing the flexible
working time to their employees or not.
MAIN BODY
Task 2
Aims
 To analyse the impact of flexible working hours schedule over company's performance.
A study on Mark and Spencer (M&S).
Objective:
 To understand the concept of flexible working hours.
 To evaluate different methods related to flexible working hours in M&S.
 To identify the impacts of flexible working condition on the performance of M&S.
 To provide necessary recommendations for addressing different challenges associated
with flexible working practices.
Q.1) Do you feel flexible working hours should be a part of the company's policy?
 Strongly Agreed
 Agreed
 Neutral
 Disagreed
 Strongly Disagreed
Q.2) How many hours do you work in a week under flexible working hours?
 0-20
 20-40
 40-50
 >50

Q.3) Is company provides flexible working hours benefits to their employees even at tight
deadlines?
 Yes
 No
Q.4) Has tight working schedules under flexible working condition create an impact on your
quality of work?
 Increased
 Decreased
 No Change
Q.5) Which method of flexible working hours is best suitable for you?
 Flexible time
 Part time work
 Work from home
 Compressed hours
Q.6) Is completing daily targets of the company on specific time is challenging for you under
flexible working conditions (FWC)?
 Yes
 No
Q.7) Do you feel flexible working condition allow you enough time to make strong relation
with other employees?
 Strongly Agreed
 Agreed
 Neutral
 Disagreed
 Strongly disagreed
Q.8) Has flexible time affects your thinking regarding your jobs?
 Feels Better
 Feels worse
 No change
Q.9) What are the key challenges you are facing under flexible working practices?
 Low Payment

 Less Productivity
 Unsupportive leader
 All of the above
Q.10) What are the best strategy from your point the company can adopt in order to maintain
the flexible working hours?
 Unlimited vacation
 Result-only work environment
 Remote work and distributed team
 Time agnostic work
 Job Sharing
Q.11) What effect the flexible working hours put in your career progression or development
opportunities?
 Positive effect
 Negative effect
 No change
Q.12) Does your company provide trainings regarding the flexible work arrangements under
flexible working hours practices?
 Yes
 No
Q.13) Do you have any recommendation for major changes in the flexible working hours
program?
Theme: Flexible working hour should be a part company's policy
Q.1) Do you feel flexible working hours should be a part of the company's policy?
Strongly agree 9
Agree 7
Neutral 5
Disagree 6

Strongly disagree 3
Interpretation:
From the above mentioned table and chart, it is identified that 30% of the employees of
the company are strongly agreed that the company should have flexible working hours schedule
as a part of the company policy. In the same context, the 23% of the employees are also agree
with a policy which provide them flexible working hours in the organization because it reduces
their work stress (Bird and Brown, 2018). But on the other hand, 10% of the employees are
strongly disagreeing with such an policy because they feel that any work which are of their
interest do not make them feel stressed. And 20% of the employees are also supporting them by
agreeing that the company should not have and also not need to make a policy regarding flexible
working hours. While out of all, there are also 17% of the employees giving no comment on such
a statement. So from the above analysis it is interpret that the company should have to make a
policy supporting the flexible working hours because of majority of votes.
Theme: Total number of flexible working hours in a week
Q.2) How many hours do you work in a week under flexible working hours?
0-20 6
30%
23% 17%
20%
10%
Flexible working part of company
Strongly agree
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Strongly disagree