彈性工作時間 公司員工皆歡喜

Job flexibility is the key to keeping workers happy, productive and loyal to the company, a new study shows.
一項最新研究顯示，彈性工作制對於保持員工心情愉快、高效工作以及對公司忠誠不二是至關重要的。

Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, found that workers who enjoyed more work flexibility were also less likely to say health problems affected their performance at work.
北卡羅萊納州溫斯頓塞勒姆的維克森林大學醫學院的研究人員發現，享有更多工作自由度的員工認爲健康問題對自己的工作表現影響較小。

"For managers, the results suggest that implementing flexible work arrangements can contribute to the bottom-line," said Joseph Grzywacz, a professor of family medicine at the university.
該大學的家庭醫學教授約瑟夫·格里茲沃茨說：“研究顯示，管理者執行彈性工作管理體制有利於公司的盈利。”

Workplace flexibility refers to the ability of employees to modify where, when and how long work their work is performed.
彈性工作制指的是員工可以靈活安排自己的工作地點、工作時間及工作時長。

Telecommuting, flexitime and job sharing were the main types of flexibility cited in the study published in the Psychologist-Manager journal.
該項在《心理學家與管理人》期刊上發表的研究報告提到，遠程辦公、彈性工時以及分工合作是彈性工作制的幾種主要形式。

The researchers studied a health survey completed by 3,193 employees of a large multinational pharmaceutical company. They used the information to determine how increases or decreases in perceived flexibility from one year to the next were associated with a variety of factors.
研究人員分析了一家大型跨國醫藥公司的3193名員工的健康數據。他們根據其中的信息來確定一年內工作靈活度的增加或減少對其它一系列因素有什麼影響。

Decreases in flexibility over the year were associated with reduced job commitment, but had little impact on absence, they said.
研究人員稱，工作靈活度的降低導致了員工工作投入度的降低，但對於出勤沒有太大影響。

Offering a variety of alternative work arrangements and training managers and supervisors to be supportive of workers' personal lives may help in creating a culture of flexibility, researchers added.
研究人員建議，爲員工提供各種靈活的工作安排，讓經理和主管們多爲員工的個人生活着想，這將有利於打造靈活的的企業文化。