Changing Employment Patterns and Practices

Changing Employment Patterns and Practices

Changing Patterns & Practices of Employment

• Organizations are evolving to meet the ever changing business environment;
• Employment practices are also changing
• Working from home
• Tele-working
• Flexi-time
• Part-time
• Job sharing
• Contract workers (Hired for a period of time)

Flexible work structures

• ’Flexible working’ describes any working pattern adapted to suit your needs
• Flexi-time: choosing when to work (there’s usually a core period time during which you have to work)
• Staggered hours: different starting, break and finishing times for employees in the same workplace
• Homeworking: working from home
• Part time: working less than the normal hours, perhaps by working fewer days per week