Potential for Flexible Working in the Workplace Presentation

This presentation examines the concept of flexible working, exploring its benefits and drawbacks through a comprehensive literature review and primary research. The study investigates the impact of flexible work arrangements on employee productivity, work-life balance, and organizational performance. The research strategy includes qualitative methods like interviews with employees and managers, along with a quantitative survey to analyze the impact of flexible working. The findings reveal the advantages of flexible working, such as increased productivity and employee retention, while also highlighting potential challenges like communication difficulties and lack of career progression. The presentation concludes with an analysis of the research data, offering insights into the varying impacts of flexible working across different organizations and providing recommendations for effective implementation.

Potential for Flexible
Working
In work place

Introduction
• The aim of the assessment
aims at describing the concept
of flexible working
• The term of flexible working is
used for understanding the
different working facilities that
are provided towards the
workers.
• The aim of the assessment is
to determine the different
factors that are related to
flexible working.

Literature review
• The objective behind carrying out the critical literature review
is to provide a better knowledge about the flexible working
schedule.
• Flexible working is one of the concept that helps in enhancing
the business productivity (Blyton and Morris 2017)
• Flexible working includes working from home or to have
flexible shift timing
• With the help of flexible working it becomes easy to enhance
the performance
• Employees are allowed to ask for flexible working

Literature review
• Work flexibility provides
employees with better
flexibility and time for engaging
employees
• This enhances the health and
safety
• With a better working
condition it has been observed
that the health condition of the
workers also tends to improve
• Workers’ well being increases
the overall production of the
organization (Schieman and
Glavin 2017)

Literature review
• The major advantages that are offered with the
implementation of flexible working for employers includes
increase in the productivity.
• This also increases the staff retention rate and also ensures
that better performance is obtained towards the employees.
• Flexible working offers greater control over the schedule and
this manages the overall performance.
• Flexible scheduling lead s to increase the productivity rate,
reduces the turnover ratio and also offers better retention.

Literature review
• Apart from the emerging benefits, there are several
disadvantages that comes along with the use of flexible
working.
• It has been observed that due to improper concentration
within the office hours it becomes difficult to manage the
business performance.
• With the flexible working concept it has been observed that
the communication process becomes very difficult (Schieman
and Glavin 2017).
• Flexible working leads to lack of career progression.
• Performance of the employees gets hampered

Research Strategy
• Research strategy is referred to the
plan that is used for conducting a
research study.
• Research methods are used for the
purpose of collecting and analyzing
the data.
• The research strategies are divided
into three different categories
explanatory, casual and description.
• In order to evaluate the
consequence of initiating flexibility
working, it becomes important to
carry out qualitative methods
(Lehdonvirta 2018).

Qualitative Research strategy
• Qualitative research strategy helps in managing the data sets
efficiently.
• For the purpose of evaluating the factors related to the
flexibility working , several peer reviewed journals are used
along with the research articles.
• The data and observation helps in analyzing the exact factors
that hampers the working structure.
• It has been observed that flexible working offers better
support towards the workers.
• According Piasna (2018), to the article, flexible working
structure enhances the overall performance and productivity.

Interview- research tool
• Interview is a form of qualitative research methodology.
• With the help of qualitative research it becomes easy to
evaluate the overall performance.
• The interview is being carried out for the purpose of
understanding the overall performance

Interview Data
• Interview with employees
• Q1: How working experience has changed with flexible
working situation?
• Ans: The introduction of flexible working has benefitted
widely. This has improved the productivity. This also helps in
keeping a proper balance between the family and work.
• Q2. Flexible working has been a boon or curse for your
organization?
• Ans: Flexible working is a boon for our organization as this has
enhanced the overall production rate.
• Q3. Does the habit of employees gets effected with the
flexible working structure?
• Ans: yes, the way employees used to work has changed a lot.

Interview Data
• Interview with manager
• Q1. How the organizational performance has improved?
• Ans: The organizational performance has enhanced widely.
This includes increase in overall productivity.
• Q2. How does the employee retention got affected?
• Ans: Employee retention gets effected highly with flexible
working time. The retention rate has increased.
• Q3. Why you introduced flexible working shift in your
organization ?
• Ans: We have introduced flexible working shift for improving
the organizations productivity.

Quantitative analysis
• For the purpose of analyzing the impact of flexible working,
survey has been carried out.