Flexi-time effects on staffing levels
Daly asks whether flexi-time affected staffing; Boland says it had no particular effect and allows employees to choose earlier or later working patterns around core hours.
Has this scheme provided additional opportunities or what effect has it had on staffing levels?
Comment on this
The scheme has not had any particular effect on staffing levels. The concept of the scheme is that while all personnel involved are required to attend during the core hours, there is a theory that certain people perform better in the early morning and that others work better later on. Within the parameters of the core hours, personnel may opt to work early in the morning and leave relatively early in the afternoon or, alternatively, to start work at 10 a.m. and serve until a later time in the evening. It is designed to recognise the preferred working pattern of different individuals.