{"id":630,"date":"2008-04-17T22:05:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T20:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2008-04-17T22:06:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T20:06:40","slug":"flexible_working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/flexible_working\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexible working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSetting up a flexible working arrangement at previous Big American Employer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nDiscuss needs with manager and team leader.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nSubmit a Flexible Working Agreement proposal via special web form, specifying working hours and place for every day, providing a business justification, listing potential difficulties and how they will be resolved.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nWait for proposal to be approved by manager and HR.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nReceive written confirmation of FWA.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nFollow FWA.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nTo be honest, calling that procedure &ldquo;flexible working&rdquo; was misleading, because after the agreement had been negotiated, there wasn&rsquo;t much flexibility in it. If the FWA stipulated working 80%, with Mondays off and Fridays worked from home, then the employee was expected to follow that. &ldquo;Nonstandard working agreement&rdquo; would be a more correct name. Still, it worked well in practice and I was quite happy with the arrangement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSetting up a flexible working arrangement at current Small Swedish Employer required exactly two five-minute conversations.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHT  &ndash; Can I work part-time?<br \/>\nCEO &ndash; Yes, you can.<br \/>\nHT  &ndash; Do you prefer a full week but shorter days, or a shorter week?<br \/>\nCEO &ndash; Whichever&#8230; talk to your team leader.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nHT &ndash; I&rsquo;d like to work part-time. Do you prefer a full week but shorter days, or a shorter week?<br \/>\nTL &ndash; Whichever you like.<br \/>\nHT &ndash; OK, I&rsquo;ll try a shorter week, then. Which day off would work best?<br \/>\nTL &ndash; Whichever you like.<br \/>\nHT &ndash; Umm&#8230; Wednesday? <br \/>\nTL &ndash; Sure. If you want to change it later, let me know.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up a flexible working arrangement at previous Big American Employer: Discuss needs with manager and team leader. Submit a Flexible Working Agreement proposal via special web form, specifying working hours and place for every day, providing a business justification, listing potential difficulties and how they will be resolved. Wait for proposal to be approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}