Source: IRS Employment Review Issue: 884 Date: 05/11/2007 Publisher: IRS

Survey: Part-time work, flexitime and other non-standard working arrangements

TOPICS:
terms, conditions and employee rights working time and leave
working patterns
HR policy and strategy work organisation
contracts of employment contract types

SECTORS:
chemicals
construction
electricity, gas and water
engineering and metals
finance
food, drink and tobacco
hotels and catering
manufacturing (other)
public services
retail and wholesale
services (other)
transport and communication

AUTHOR: Noelle Murphy


An IRS survey of 163 organisations shows that employees have access to a wide variety of non-standard working arrangements, including part-time work, flexitime and term-time working.

On this page:
About our research
Working arrangements on offer
Advantages and disadvantages
Flexitime
Part-time working
Flexible working hours
Annualised hours
Term-time working
Compressed working week
Zero-hours contract
Time accounts
Table 1a: Flexible working arrangements in 40 manufacturing and production organisations
Table 1b: Flexible working arrangements in 72 private sector services organisations
Table 1c: Flexible working arrangements in 48 public sector services organisations
Table 2: Working arrangements offered by employers, by sector
Table 3: Working arrangements offered by employers, by organisation size
Table 4: Most common working arrangement within organisations, by sector
Table 5: Most common working arrangement within organisations, by organisation size
Table 6: Advantages of flexible working arrangements, by sector
Table 7: Advantages of flexible working arrangements, by organisation size
Table 8: Disadvantages of flexible working arrangements, by sector
Table 9: Disadvantages of flexible working arrangements, by organisation size
Table 10: Flexitime periods at 31 named organisations
Table 11: Availability of flexitime, by employee group
Table 12: Working arrangements offered by employers, by workforce gender split
Table 13: Most common working arrangement within organisations, by workforce gender split
Table 14: Calculation method for annualised hours contracts at 13 organisations
Table 15: Availability of compressed working week, by employee group.

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