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The scenario below is how a non-exempt employee with a default schedule of five 7-hour days would track a compressed work week.
Benefits include flextime, the opportunity to work a compressed work week and/or telecommute, and on-site services such as a hair and nail salon and DVD rentals.
For example, Family-Supportive Programs were advanced and used by many researchers (e.g. Friedman, 1990; Friedman and Galinsiky, 1992; Kraut, 1990; Lewis, 1992; Thompson et al. 1992) which mainly consist of flextime, a compressed work week, job sharing, child care assistance, work at home, and reduced work hours.
Why not, Mr. Callen, get an apartment near your office and convert to a compressed work week?
For example, Price Waterhouse Coopers, a firm that gets high marks in Fortune's survey of top companies for women, offers its employees job sharing, a compressed work week and telecommuting options.
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That may at least in part explain why using flexible work options — which include telecommuting, compressed work weeks and sharing jobs among employees, to name a few — has been slow to catch on, even though more organizations are offering them (at least on paper).
The program has two elements: Flexible Work Strategies encourages job sharing, flexible start and end times, and compressed work weeks.
That includes provisions for telecommuting, job sharing, compressed work weeks, fully-paid sabbaticals, on-site fitness/subsidized gym, on-site medical care facility, non-discrimination policy includes sexual orientation, health insurance for part-timers, college tuition reimbursement, and student loan debt repayment.
To help employees maintain a better work/life balance, 47% of employers offer flexible work hours or compressed work weeks and 9% offer job sharing (where two or more part-time workers share one full-time job).
Job sharing, flexible hours, compressed work weeks, part time and part-year work, sabbaticals, and other extended leaves are all options for keeping workers engaged and retaining ones for whom the traditional Monday to Friday, 40-60 hour workweek is a deal killer.
A policy of compressing the work week so that Fridays--or part of Fridays--can be taken off is also a strategic business tool.
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