While leaders understand it makes good business sense to keep staff happy, greater work flexibility must be managed with business delivery. That means, managers must support employees to work flexibly while ensuring productivity doesn’t dip. And for employees to understand they have a critical role to play helping their manager evidence performance and productivity gains to leaders.
For this approach to work leaders must equip managers with the right tools to manage employee expectations of flexibility with business delivery. To co-ordinate work across a team of people likely to be working in different locations, at different hours. To field a full team while juggling employee requests for parental leave, flexibility and holidays.
As well as the ability to analyse working patterns, work hours, holiday and compare this data with key performance goals.
For managers, HR, and Finance to work closely together identify peaks and troughs in workforce supply and demand and forward plan to mitigate staffing costs.
For employees to help their manager to help provide them with greater flexibility by engaging with time and attendance software. Recording this data provides employees with greater autonomy to plan working hours, book holiday and have a constructive, data-led conversation with their manager about workload.
