The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has published the results of its large-scale survey (21 000 companies in 21 countries) on the working time flexibility measures in operation in the companies and their conciliation with the family lives of employees. (Ref. 06524)
The survey covered the 15 older member States, together with the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia.
The general context of flexibility and the organisation of working time. According to the study, four flexibility models can be identified:
- The low level of flexibility which does not make it possible to alter working times at the beginning and end of the working day, with no possibility to accumulate time credits or debits. The number of hours worked per day remains unchanged. This level of flexibility exists in 16% of the companies surveyed in this study.
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