Flexible Schedules Also Important

By: fedweek

The GAO report also addressed the commonly held view that employees highly value flexible working arrangements, such as alternative or compressed work schedules. Said the report: "Governmentwide, employees reported using a variety of workplace scheduling flexibilities as options for addressing their dependent care needs. The availability and use of these flexibilities varied widely across agencies and more employees in the legislative agencies and judicial units reported using such flexibilities than in executive agencies. Although availability and use varied, survey results indicated that these workplace scheduling flexibilities were consistently important to the recruitment and retention of employees with dependent care needs governmentwide.– For a closer look, go to fedweek.com/HotFreeNews in the hot free info section of our website.