Impact of Flexible Work Schedule on Employees’ Productivity

Introduction
The business organizations have been using flexible work arrangements for many years now, one of the reasons advocate their usage is that flexible work arrangements help the employees to better balance between their work and life needs (Almer, Cohen, & Single, 2003) . Also organizations that provide flexible work arrangements are more attractive to applicants and better in retaining its employees than other organizations that not offer such arrangements (Rau & Hyland, 2002; Bevan, Dench, Tamkin, & Cummings, 1999). In our study we will focus on flexible work schedules as a sort of flexible work arrangements.
The objective of this study is to understand the impact of schedule work schedules on the employees’ performance and if the job type is affecting the relationship between the flexible work schedule and employees’ performance.

Literature Review

Definition of flexible working hours

Flexible working hours is a way of arranging working hours to allow the employees to select their working hours themselves or even choose the number of hours they will work on a day (Hoffmann & Greenwood, 2001). Bevan and colleagues (1999) suggest that organizations that don’t recognize and address the work/life balance issues are at competitive disadvantage; some organization require a core time that all employees should be existing and outside this core time the employee have the flexibility to choose his/her working time (Eldridge & Nisar, 2011).

According to Beers (2000) jobs with high frequency of using flexible work arrangement are those don’t require starting and ending at specific time to do the job effectively. For example, flexible work arrangement is common among who work in executive, administrative, managerial and sales occupations. On the other hand the use of flexible work arrangement is lower for groups where the nature of job dictates a specific start and end time. For instance, nurses, teacher, and manufacturing operations.
Flexible work

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