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Working outside-the-home moms with flexible work schedules, come in ...
How did your employer allow a flexible work arrangement? How did you approach it? What do you think got it accepted?
My "in-office" schedule is no longer working for either my boss or myself, and I said that I would write a proposal for a flexible work schedule. Yay! But I want to write one that will be accepted.
What did you do? TIA!
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Re: Working outside-the-home moms with flexible work schedules, come in ...
(c) Holly Aprecio Photography - Oct 2011
That's kind of the way it used to be with my boss ... that 'as long as I get my work done, then there's no 'set' schedule' ... until my evil old boss started making a big deal about it. Biotch. My work has no influence or even dotted line reporting structure to her, she's just that much of a biotch, even though her direct reports come and go as the please.
Ugh, anyway, at least now, I will put something together in writing.
This is EXACTLY what my boss' opinion has been for almost 8 months ... I've been able to work from home at will, come and go at will, but, seriously, all of a sudden, I *know* that my evil old boss started making an issue of the flexibility. All of a sudden, it's so important that I, literally, be *in my office* for 8 hours, with unpaid lunch. I'm not hourly either, it's just weird.
I think you need to highlight how this will be an advantage for your employer so they will see it as a positive. For example, when I switched my hours from a later to shift to an earlier shift, I mentioned how I was making the company available earlier to clients by being the first one in and opening us up for business an hour earlier than usual. I also emphasized that when we are busy I am flexible and will work later if I have too.
What kind of arrangement are you looking to make? If it's more of a work at home, maybe mention that you have your child care worked out so you can do so, like you will have a sitter present in the house while you work, etc, etc. Just focus on how you will be available, accountable, and reliable and how it could benefit your position in the end instead of hinder it.
I work for a company that is flexible but my current boss is not and it is really annoying that I have to be there for 9 hours when an hour is an unpaid lunch, which I don't even want to take I am fine with 30 mins at my desk. There are times I am there late and work weekends but there are other times when we are slow.
My previous boss had core hours, which meant everyone needed to be in the office from 9-3. Some people worked from home in the afternoon, others worked 6-3, with the hour lunch, some worked 7-4:30 with a 30 min. lunch. Maybe proposing a sch. with core hours will work.
I am a manager and it can be a pain when other managers make things that are non of their business an issue. I have an employee that wants to flex her hours but because my boss and another manager on our team are so closed minded I can't let her flex her hours. I told her I would propose something to the management team after the new year. I also had a manager file a complaint with my boss because I let my employee take lunch at two and she felt lunches need to be over by then.
I feel bad about it because I could care less what hours she works so long as she works late when I need her too and works weekend events when needed, which is part of her job. Basically I need he her job to be completed but politics limits my power.
GL