John is so worried about his job that he doesn't take the flex time promised to him.
Similarly, flex time, telecommuting guidelines, and savings plans although possibly unimportant to you now might later make the difference between maintaining your job with your employer and quitting down the line.
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Engaged employees were much more likely to say their companies offered at least some flex time and to report working longer hours than actively disengaged colleagues or those who were not engaged.
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That's why we think it's important to highlight companies that are embracing these policies, ones that are experimenting with things like flex time and telecommuting and focusing on performance and output rather than face time.
As a single young professional in my 20s at Merrill Lynch, I never considered reviewing the policies that would affect my work-life balance, such as parental leave, flex time, telecommuting policies, or retirement benefits.
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But a company which does value employee contributions and invests in their development make become a more pleasant place to work when it offers employees perks like flex time, work from home, access to fitness centers in addition to fair compensation and benefits.
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Their innovations as managers--profit sharing, flex-time, management by objective, the "HP Way"--transformed modern industry.
Based on their parenting roles, some female business chiefs have sought to ease staffers' work-family conflicts by introducing perquisites such as "flex-time" and sick-child facilities.
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His flex-time policies allow workers to come and go whenever they want say, when waves are high at the nearby surf point as long as deadlines are met.
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Gates negotiated flex-time before there was a word for it and pursued project work that she could complete in her own time and on her own terms.
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She argues for federal support for child care and after-school care, and control over flex-time for employees whose long hours usually come at the expense, emotionally and financially, of their families.
For example, a large-scale survey conducted in Canada found that as work hours increased and flex-time arrangements became rarer over the last two decades, the percentage of respondents who rated themselves as highly satisfied with their lives plunged by 50% over the same period.
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Yet for the longest time I-flex was more successful in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa than in the U.S., a major market.
Recent American behaviour has fuelled the hardliners' belief that the time has come for China to flex some muscle.
We went into more detail on this particular feature in our review of the Flex, but in a nutshell: Easy Experience is essentially a special introductory launcher that helps first-time smartphone users settle into the whirlwind world of Android without experiencing as drastic a learning curve.
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On one hand: good for Sutter to learn how to flex its muscles the same way that payers like UnitedHealth, Anthem Blue Cross and Aetna learned to do a long time ago.
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