Time and people. Many enlightened companies are changing the way they do business to better accommodate the changing workforce. By altering work schedules, these companies realize many benefits. Recruitment and retention are enhanced because employees can better balance work and family demands. Facilities can better accommodate staff increases.
Productivity goes up and traffic congestion is reduced.
On a flextime schedule, employees work their regular number of days and hours each week. Compressed Work Weeks Compressed work weeks allow employees to shorten their work week by one or more days. Teleworking substitutes technology for travel. It can done every day of the week with a computer, modem and other home-office items, or done one day a week with paper and pen. You can't see it, feel it, or taste it, but smog, or ground-level ozone, envelops the Atlanta region.