Case study: The pursuit of Happiness Flexibility How might flexible work place more pressure on managers to organize their employees DOCX

Title	Case study: The pursuit of Happiness Flexibility How might flexible work place more pressure on managers to organize their employees
Author	Ali Amin
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Case study: The pursuit of Happiness Flexibility Do you think only certain individuals are attracted to flexible work arrangements? Why or why not? Yes, certain individuals are attracted to flexible work arrangements because they cannot work more productive and efficient by working 8 to 9 hours consistently. Employees like R&D , sales, Marketing researcher or scientist that are working on some innovative idea's prefer to work in flexible hours because they think that by doing this, they will concentrate more on their jobs and develop more idea's that bring up the good results. But there are some employees as well as employers that might be against this flexible working hours. As they cannot manage their work or life cycle and they feel difficulty in supervision or managing the things at the time of need. How might flexible work place more pressure on managers to organize their employees? Flexible work place would result in more pressure on managers to organize their employees because the manager will not be able to communicate immediately with the team at the time of need when he needs quick decision. He also feels difficulty in managing the employees or supervising them. This will create a huge pressure on manager to get the things done at the right time. How flexible working hours might affects a company's bottom line? As we know, the bottom line represents the company's income after deducting all expenses. Flexible working can effect positively to a bottom line of a company. In this case study, it is stated that at Veronica Wooten, company's customer base increased by 20%, meetings were reduced by 50% and expenses decreased by 12% by adopting results-only work environment. So this will help company to reduce its cost and strengthen its profits....