 Using flexitime – for better work or a better life? Issues in R&D work efficiencyMarko Virkebau, Aaro Hazak and Kadri Männasoo No 27, TUT Economic Research Series from Department of Finance and Economics, Tallinn University of Technology Abstract: Providing flexible working time has become increasingly popular among employers with the purpose of improving efficiency or making jobs more attractive for employees. It is still quite unclear, however, what the motivating factors are in different types of employees in terms of using flexitime. Based on our survey among 153 Estonian creative R&D employees, we find two distinct groups of reasons for the use of flexible work – some aim to improve the work results while some wish to achieve a better work-life balance. Younger and better educated employees, as well as those who sleep less hours at night appeared to be more aimed at better work outcomes through the use of flexitime. Those with larger families, however, appear to value options for improving the work-life balance more when using flexitime. It is important that employers understand that flexible working time is attractive for different types of employees, and for different purposes. This, in turn, may have an impact on what kinds of employees the employer is able to recruit or maintain. Date: 2017-08-31 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ttu:tuteco:27 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in TUT Economic Research Series from Department of Finance and Economics, Tallinn University of Technology Contact information at EDIRC. |
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