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Dec

2010

Winning Support for Flexible Work

Management experts have long predicted the demise of the standard 9-to-5 workday. Thanks to internet and mobile technology, we can now work where and when we want, they argue. So, why are so many people still sticking to those traditional hours, or more likely an extended version of them? The reality is that while flexible work arrangements have become more popular, few companies have an official policy or program.

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Even those bosses who trust their employees worry about appearing to favor certain people or allowing productivity to decline.
Research from Lotte Bailyn, professor of management at MIT's Sloan School of Management and co-author of Beyond Work-Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance has shown that when people are given the flexibility they need, they meet goals more easily, they're absent or tardy less often, and their morale goes up.
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- Before you make a proposal, be sure to understand the impact your wished-for schedule will have on your boss, your team and your performance.
- You can allay their fears by positioning your proposal as an experiment. "Include a trial period so that the boss doesn't worry that things will fall apart. He or she needs to be able to see the new way of working, and, in our experience, it quickly becomes evident that it is superior,"
- "Lots of our research has shown that flexibility only works when it's done collectively, not one-on-one between employee and employer,"
- Friedman points out that there's a difference between "equality" and "equity" and, in fact, many people prefer a traditional schedule. "You don't give everyone the same thing because they don't want they same thing," he says.
- Your proposal needs to emphasize the organizational benefits over the personal ones.

Nov

2010

BlackBerry : la grogne contre les heures sup

"Lorsqu'un salarié utilise son BlackBerry en dehors du bureau, il effectue des heures supplémentaires et doit être rémunéré en conséquence ! C'est ce que martèle, depuis quelques semaines, le sergent Jeffrey Allen à un tribunal américain. En mai, ce policier a porté plainte contre son employeur, la ville de Chicago, réclamant le paiement de plus de 500 heures de travail effectuées, depuis 2007, via son BlackBerry. "

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une plainte déposée par des commerciaux de T-Mobile, a été réglée à l'amiable. S'estimant contraints de consulter, sans cesse, leur BlackBerry, les collaborateurs de cet opérateur de télécoms ont obtenu un supplément de rémunération.
'avocat s'appuie sur la législation du Fair Labor Standards Act, voté en 1938. Selon cette loi, tout travail réalisé au-delà des 40 heures hebdomadaires en vigueur aux Etats-Unis doit être payé en heures supplémentaires. Certains cadres supérieurs et des intellectuels, dont les heures de travail ne sont pas comptabilisées, échappent à la règle.
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- Howard Lavin, du cabinet Stroock & Lavan, à New York, conseille à ses clients de distribuer un BlackBerry aux salariés qui en ont vraiment besoin. Et, il recommande de noter les heures passées au téléphone… pour les payer en heures supplémentaires

Jul

2009

Young workers push employers for wider Web access

Ryan Tracy thought he'd entered the Dark Ages when he graduated college and arrived in the working world.

His employer blocked access to Facebook, Gmail and other popular Internet sites. He had no wireless access for his laptop and often ran to a nearby cafe on work time so he could use its Wi-Fi connection to send large files.

Sure, the barriers did what his employer intended: They stopped him and his colleagues from using work time to goof around online. But Tracy says the rules also got in the way of legitimate work he needed to do as a scientific analyst for a health care services company.

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That's what Joe Dwyer decided to do when he started Chicago-based Brill Street & Co., a jobs site for young professionals. He lets his employees use social networking and has found that, while they might spend time chatting up their friends, sometimes they're asking those same friends for advice for a work problem or looking for useful contacts.
"So what seems unproductive can be very productive," Dwyer says.
But that also means many companies are still figuring out their online policies and how to deal with the blurring lines between work and personal time — including social networking, even with the boss.