FLEXIBLE WORKING TELECOMMUTING WORK-LIFE BALANCE
Singapore – Employers can consider offering their frontline employees flexible workplace arrangements such as flexi-shifts for a happier and more productive workforce.
Although the option is not typically afforded to frontline employees, workplace flexibility is still an increasingly “declared human resource policy”, David Ang, executive director at the Singapore Human Resource Institute, said in an article on TODAY Online.
"You could ask to be placed on permanent first or second shift. But the success of these arrangements depends a lot of times on the supervisor.”
According to a survey by global research company Ipos, which polled 11,383 online connected employees across 24 countries, workplace flexibility such as telecommuting is primarily practiced in emerging markets such as the Middle East and Africa Latin America and Asia Pacific.
However while a majority of employees agree that it will keep talented women in the workforce and lighten their stress levels, about six in 10 admitted that not seeing their colleagues face to face everyday makes them feel socially isolated.
Overall, telecommuters are more productive because the flexibility allows them to work when they have the most focus with less manager supervision. Furthermore, maximum control over work environment and schedule also leads to job satisfaction and happiness.
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