Flexible Working Hours - The Concept
With the concept of Flexible Working Hours, fixed times of arrival & departure are replaced by a working day which is split into two types of time:-
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The Core Period - the main part of the day when everyone must be in attendance and
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Flexible Periods - at the beginning and end of the day and often at lunchtime, when staff can choose their own times of arrival and departure, within agreed guidelines.
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A Typical Flex Daily Schedule :
Use of the daily Flexible Periods by the employee are subject to certain common sense understandings e.g.that work is kept up to date and that care is taken to ensure adequate workplace coverage is maintained (see elsewhere where FlexTime Limited has developed special programmes to assist the employees/managers with this issue of cover).
How the employee then uses his/her flexiblity is the next important consideration.
Some will just want to "flex" in and out, so as to regulate more easily the balance between work and home life e.g. to travel at times so as to avoid traffic peaks; maybe take a long lunch break on some days to do some shopping and then on other days to mainly take shorter lunch breaks then he/she would in a fixed day, perhaps even the minimum half hour.
However, another significant component of the flexi concept is the "flex day". This is whereby the employee can build up time at the end of each month, for taking off as a full day or as half days in the following month. This build up of time is called the carry forward allowance. The amount of this allowance can vary between flexi schemes. 
Typically organisations allow employees to carry forward up to 10 or 12 Hours. Some allow more time, others less. Indeed some organisations do not allow any carry over time. More here about accounting periods and flex cycles
The VisionTime system from FlexTime calculates all of these variables for the employee ans supervisors, so as to make things easier for each party to manage time efficiently.
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Cllick on the links below for information on other aspects of flexible working hours :-