Flexible Working Hours - Flex Day

Typically, in a flexible working hours arrangement, those excess hours that are built up, in addition to being used for the flexibility of arrival and departure times at work, can be used also to allow the employee to choose to take off as a "block" of time.

This "block" is called the Flex Day or Half Flex Day (or in some situations even, Flex Days) and can usually taken in the next Accounting Period. However, some organisations will have it as part of their flexible working scheme, whereby employees are allowed to take a Flex Day off - even if excess time has not yet been built up to that point of the Accounting Period. Ask for more details on variations in practice. (Ph : 00353 1 2609680).

Flexible Working Arrangements

Increasingly the Employee, the Supervisor and the Organisation for which they work are concerned to achieve what is popularly termed as a Work: Life Balance, and look to new ways of arranging working times to suit each of those three parties. Thus Flexible Working Hours, as a concept, can be considered part of an even larger mix of working time and working location agreements - which are these days referred to as Flexible Working Arrangements. These wider accommodations encompass even more diverse possibilities such as:-

Home Working, Hot Desking, Job Sharing, Work Sharing, Term Time, Variable Working Hours, Annualised Hours, the Compressed Working Week, Part Time Work Voluntary Reduced Hours.

Other Flexible Working Arrangements can fall under the headings of Statutory Leave, Non Statutory Leave, Employment/Career Breaks and also more specialised arrangements - such as TeleWorking.