Flexitime

Hi Nicola
My old work offered flexi time which was great, but it was religiously stuck to we had to swipe in and out to ensure we weren't taking liberties. My current work has strick working hours however it's understood that we can leave early etc as long as we make the time up, it is not policed. This second type, of course, leads to quite abit of p-taking.
Old works version worked really well, despite the heavy hand. We had core hours that we had to be in the office for 10-4, with 2 hour window for lunch, everyone could then pick and choose when they came in and left. So you could have a very short day if you wanted and then make it up when you wanted within the month. Swiping in and out meant that we all knew how much time we had under or over and could only carry over 2 hrs (I think) under or over to the next month.
It worked great for appointments and what-not, but we also were allotted a number of hours/days we could take for health appointments without having to work them back. For instance, health provider/hospital booked appointments (rather than employee booked appts) in the middle of the day where rescheduling would be detrimental.
Most of us scheduled our day around our bosses and staffing/cover needs as well as personal needs and traffic into consideration, most came in 9-5, a few 8-4 and a few 10-6. So the office was covered 8-6.
It is something I really appreciated, and do find fixed-full office hours really weird now, as well as abit 'dark ages'.
Hope that helps.
Les.

Hi Lesley,

Did you always have cover for a key holder to be onsite at 8am to open and 6pm to close or is there some other way that you did it?

Hi Lesley,

Did you always have cover for a key holder to be onsite at 8am to open and 6pm to close or is there some other way that you did it?