They share the job's salary and benefits while working part-time. Not only are turnover and absenteeism lower in job-shared jobs, but productivity is higher. Job sharing can also be effective at many organizational levels, even among supervisors, but managers must be sure that job sharers have complementary skills and that they are well organized. Flextime Flextime allows employees to work schedules that consist of two parts. The second part is a flexible period, usually at the beginning or ending of each work shift, during which employees can choose their arrival and departure times.
Some large corporations use flextime programs successfully.
There are some positive and negative aspects to it. For example, key people are sometimes unavailable and meetings and projects can be hard to schedule. But it can also increase employee morale, production, lower turnover and decrease absenteeism. Chevron This company quit evaluating employees on past performance but rather on the new system which was designed to encourage employee growth by focusing on professional development. They did this restructuring in 1991 and it has worked out very well for them.