Flexible Work Schedule

The Factor that Drives Employee Increasingly Interested in Jobs with Flexible Work Schedule

In the world of globalisation today, many of us have to work for struggling in the life. Employees have a commitment towards their parents, children and their partner. “Flexible work schedules such as flextime, telework, or compressed work weeks, are examples of increasing variation in the timing and duration of work hours, and the location of work.” (Ellen et al. Flexible Work Schedules). Many employees will have the interested in flexible work schedule. Flexible work schedule is a schedule that makes employees can work on a flexible time. They can manage their time to work, they can manage their starting time working and ending time working. This

Now that I have a balance, I feel like I spend enough time at home and enough time at work.” In the 21st century, many women are working to help their husband. This due to economy, they have to spend more on the life. Furthermore, they have to spend a lot of money to make their children live in a better life. So, they have to struggle in life. Flexible work schedule are very helping for a working mother who have to help her husband in the life and have to manage her children. They can stabilize their time at home and at office if they are allowed to work in flexible work schedule. A flexible work schedule is more in used by women employee. Moreover, Subramaniam and Selvaratnam (2010) noted that Malaysia have almost of their women employee faced the difficulties in balancing their work and their family. Furthermore, private and government sector should aware about the working mother and their quality work relationship. This is because there is an increase in awareness of the quality work relationship for working mothers. This can be the first factor that employee very interesting in flexible work

This is the third factors that make employee interested in flexible work hour. They can spend more hours in the weekdays to make them free in the weekend. This can help them to save their money in petrol to arrive at the office and go back home. In 2014, the petrol has arisen to RM2.30 per litre. This may help them in saving their money to spend in the other things such as groceries, and the other household. They can budget their and manage their cost in petrol to go for a work. They can save their money for their future. If there is an emergency they can use the money. Other than that, they can help their children in spending fee cost for their study especially in Institut Pengajian Tinggi (IPT). They will need a high cost in paying their fees such as their preparation in going to IPT. They will spend a lot of money when entering the IPT. Parents have to support their children before they get the loan from Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) or Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional