Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A system of scheduling working hours in places of employment, which allows employees to arrive at and leave work at times of their own choice, providing that they work the required number of hours and usually requiring that they be present during certain hours, called core time.
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- noun An arrangement that allows
employees to set their own working hours within agreed limits; normally must include certainperiods (core time) when they must be at work.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Despite being paid six figure salaries, 1,962 of EU's most senior civil servants have been allowed to join a "flexitime" scheme, originally meant for lower paid secretarial staff, that gives an extra 24 days off work every year for those that put in an extra 45 minutes a day in the office.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Despite being paid six figure salaries, 1,962 of EU's most senior civil servants have been allowed to join a "flexitime" scheme, originally meant for lower paid secretarial staff, that gives an extra 24 days off work every year for those that put in an extra 45 minutes a day in the office.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Despite being paid six figure salaries, 1,962 of EU's most senior civil servants have been allowed to join a "flexitime" scheme, originally meant for lower paid secretarial staff, that gives an extra 24 days off work every year for those that put in an extra 45 minutes a day in the office.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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There is also more and more variation in individuals 'working time over the year and over working life, reflecting more emphasis on work-life balance measures such as flexitime and time credit systems.
EU News eub2 2010
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There is also more and more variation in individuals 'working time over the year and over working life, reflecting more emphasis on work-life balance measures such as flexitime and time credit systems.
EU News eub2 2010
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It is also important to acknowledge the concerns of volunteer managers who balk at the idea of thousands of students and city professionals beating a path to their door to demand flexitime.
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Indeed, in this era of flexitime and homeworking, daytime pyjama-wearing can just as easily signify work hard, lonely, selfless work as lack of work – unless the humble homeworker is now considered to be part of the "underclass"?
The camera does sometimes lie. Ask a female politician | Barbara Ellen 2012
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Cue the familiar remedies of our age—targeted management training, subsidized daycare, flexitime—all designed to give women more hours and inclination to pursue what too many of them still obstinately count as their second-highest priority.
What Women Want Anne Jolis 2011
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He told me that a combination of flexitime, job sharing and refusing to leave mobile phones on meant that nothing could get done.
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A week earlier they were about to be held to a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford by the struggling Wolves when Park Ji-sung won the game in Fergie flexitime.
Sir Alex Ferguson thrilled by comeback but knows he has problems David Lacey at Villa Park 2010
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