Sentence examples for workers flexible hours from inspiring English sources

Ms. Brownfield noted that a 1998 study found that 68percentt of companies nationally are allowing workers flexible hours.

Ian Manning, Liberal Democrat councillor for East Chesterton, who in November called for the council to offer workers flexible hours so they could watch the race, said to call Le Tour a "local sporting event" was "understated".

Rather than raise wages, managers lure workers with flexible hours and other benefits, what Mr. Consroe calls soft labor costs.

One recent survey found that workers with flexible hours actually put in a few hours more a week than do those without flexible hours.

At the very least, workers need flexible hours to meet family needs, as well as time off for sickness and to attend to aging parents.

High-speed broadband and secure virtual private networks now make teleworking feasible without posing a threat to corporate security, while more remote workers and flexible hours mean smaller offices and lower overheads for businesses.

This may be partially so, but we have to acknowledge that this is not a new concept -- that workers want respect, flexible hours, the ability to be promoted, and so on.

An agency worker has to work flexible hours and is only requested to come to work when there is work to be done.

Surveys of federal workers show that telecommuting and flexible hours appeal to them and may reduce employee turnover, Ms. Jenkins said.

Yesterday Labour accused  Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, of living in a "parallel universe" after he suggested that zero-hours contracts should be rebranded "flexible hours contracts" because workers welcomed the flexibility they offered.

"It is designing policies to come up with contracts or flexible hours for older workers.