{"id":1433,"date":"2013-02-10T01:25:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T06:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2013-02-11T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:45:11","slug":"why-flexibility-should-be-part-of-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2013\/02\/10\/why-flexibility-should-be-part-of-your-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Flexibility Should Be Part of Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flexibility in the work\/life balance with your staff is vital when it comes to harmony in the office. Studies have shown that a happy, healthy and balanced worker is a more productive worker. \u00a0Not to mention that your favorite worker will be less likely to look elsewhere in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flexibility for your business can be extra time off, working from home or leaving work a little early to avoid the rush hour traffic.<\/p>\n

So how do you offer flexibility within your company and still keep the production high?<\/p>\n

Have a policy written out in your Employment Handbook<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Managers must be careful to not discriminate and having a clear written set of rules will help both parties understand what is acceptable and what is not.<\/p>\n

Allow your staff to earn additional time off<\/strong> \u2013 If you have a staff member that worked extra shifts to get the job done, offer a little time off to be used at their discretion. Again, make sure you have a policy that applies to everyone. This show of appreciation will keep your staff motivated to always follow through on a project.<\/p>\n

Allow them to work from home<\/strong> \u2013 If you have a staff member with a sick child and it is possible, let them work from home. It\u2019s better to get the job done then to have to wait for their return in a day or two. If the staff member cannot work from home you could possibly allow them to come in after hours to catch up.<\/p>\n

Allow them to leave early<\/strong> \u2013 If your business doesn\u2019t see any customer activity towards the end of the day, allow your staff to leave a little early to avoid the rush hour traffic providing all tasks have been completed.<\/p>\n

Showing your staff that you are willing to work around their schedules will help strengthen their commitment towards your business.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flexibility in the work\/life balance with your staff is vital when it comes to harmony in the office. Studies have shown that a happy, healthy and balanced worker is a more productive worker. \u00a0Not to mention that your favorite worker will be less likely to look elsewhere in the future.<\/p>\n

Flexibility for your business can be extra time off, working from home or leaving work a little early to avoid the rush hour traffic.<\/p>\n

So how do you offer flexibility within your company and still keep the production high?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,22,30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-management","category-employee-management","category-organization","category-trends","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}