0 a situation in which an employer allows people to choose the times that they work so that they can do other things, for example spend time with their children:
1 an arrangement in which an employer allows people to choose the times that they work, whether they work in the office or at home, etc.:
This appears counter-intuitive, for much of the public debate stresses the importance of flexible working as a condition of flexible retirement.
Working annualised hours and term-time working were the next most frequently adopted flexible working-time options (3.8 and 2.4 % respectively).
Most important in the context of the present analysis, the survey asks respondents about their take-up of flexible working options at the workplace.
This is critical because the take-up of part-time working may well reduce the need for other, additional or alternative, forms of flexible working.
Successful provision of mental health services for this needy and historically-neglected population is only likely to come through collaboration between services and flexible working patterns.
The availability of flexible working practices is reviewed and employers are urged to recognise that employees lead full and complex lives outside the workplace.
They stated that flexible working and allowing time off for family illness would be most useful.
It may thus be management styles rather than (just) formal procedures that most strongly determine the scope for flexible working and the integration of older workers.
