It provides versatility, enabling employees to more conveniently use rideshare options, avoid traffic congestion and transit crowding. It can also be an attractive employee recruitment tool that allows employees to work around childcare or school schedules.
Employees tend to view an Alternative Work Schedule as a highly desirable benefit.
A flextime program permits employees to set or modify their arrival and departure times. Flextime policies usually state that the flexibility in scheduling must not conflict with workflow. Most flextime programs establish a core period of time in which all employees must be present. Employees then can adjust their start and end times around this core period. Supervisors usually retain a significant degree of control over the actual scheduling limits.