Flexitime

daveyjp

I worked flexi for years and it was just that. Start 7.30 to 10, finish 4-6. Core 10-4, min half hour lunch between 12 and 2, but 2 hour permitted.

I was generally an early starter, in before 8, finish 4.30ish, however the job meant later finishes were expected, so occasional 10-4 days were a bonus.

We could also bank hours, the rules were far too complicated for most staff, but IIRC you could have up to half a day a week flexi leave plus a full day every four weeks, but there were rules on how much credit you needed etc. I remember the guidance was about 5 pages long!

Management had the right to withdraw the perk and also impose tighter rules if everyone was starting early and finishing early.

da_rule

We have flexi time. We have a 37 hour week which works out as 7 hours 24 minutes per day. We have core hours (10am - 3pm) and must take a minimum of half an hour for lunch between 12noon and 2pm.

We can carry over up to two days of credit or one day of deficit from month to month. We book time off in the same way as holidays are booked. For example in Feb I have a week off, 2 days of which are my flexi. So I put through a holiday request for 3 days annual leave and 2 days flexi.

It is a good system for some people, who like to come in early or late etc. And people who aren't interested can just do the normal 9-5. Something to consider though is minimum staffing requirements, if everyone leaves at 4pm but your advertised office opening time is until 5pm you could annoy clients etc.

theoretica

We have similar and about 1/4 do as early as possible, 1/4 do as late as possible, 5-10% have other agreements, such as working 4 long days and the rest usually work something in the middle.

If we are needed for a meeting or anything, so long as there is reasonable warning, people will try to come in outside their preferred hours. Flexibility works both ways.

LadyMcFinch

I've always worked places with Flexitime, anytime from 7am-7pm, and there haa almost always been an equal spread of people in the office for the full duration of the day. Different times suit different lifestyles. Only one team I worked next to, not with, had a problem with everyone coming in at 7am and finishing by 3pm; they ended up with core hours.

Planet_Switzerland

I once did a flexitime job, you can't beat it. The hours were between 7-7 and you needed to take at least half hour break for every 6 hours worked.


I did 7-6 Monday and Tuesday with half hour break, 7-1 Wednesday and Thursday which was the maximum 6 hours and 7-11 Friday.


To answer your question though, I always thought people would be more inclined to start and finish early. However, at my current job it seems to be the opposite.


The official working hours are 9.30 - 17.30 but there is an unwritten rule that you work beyond these hours. I remember when 17.30 hit on my first day there and nobody moved from their desks. Personally I get in early and leave 17.30 on the dot, but its not unusual for people to get in even later than 9.30 and stay long into the evening.

Savvy_Sue

I'm not great in the mornings so I've always tended to be in nearer the start of core hours and stay later. I'm also a bit OCD about finishing what I've started.

When the boys were at primary school I had to get home for them, but now I prefer later start and finish.

Slinky

I used to work on a help desk where we had to rota across an 8am, 9am and 10am start. Never liked the 10am start week as we finished at 6pm, also couldn't get much useful done before going to work as I was always looking at the clock to make sure I wasn't going to be late. Worst thing was arriving at 10am it was always difficult to find somewhere to park.

Will parking be an issue in your area for potential late starters?

Gavin83

Given the choice of those options I'd start late/finish late but I'm not a morning person. I don't normally finish until 18:30 now normally and that suits me just fine.

If given total free reign on this I do like the idea of working extended hours 4 days a week and having the 5th off.

StaffieTerrier

We don't have a true flexi system but we're allowed to start and finish whatever time we like, as long as we complete our hours. There's 7 of us in the office and every day there's cover from 7.30am until 7.30pm. It works well.

We work in a city. Those of us living outside the city tend to get in very early or very late to avoid the traffic. The people living in the city tend to walk or cycle, so are less affected by the traffic, and tend to work standard 9am til 5pm hours.

HurdyGurdy

Our normal working hours are 8.45am to 5.20pm with one hour for lunch.

Our flexi hours are available between 7am and 7pm, with core hours being 10am to 4pm

As long as there is cover for the start of office hours and cover at the end of office hours, they don't much care who does what hours.

I am an early bird and am in work by 8am. Theoretically, I should leave at 4.40pm, but that rarely happens. My colleague prefers more time at home in the mornings, and aims to start at 10am, and doesn't usually leave before 6.30-7pm.

If we go over our contracted hours, accrue flexi leave, up to a maximum of 10 hours a month, which has to be taken by the end of the following month, otherwise we lose it.