Flexible working hours: A progress report

Abstract

At the end of 1971 there was not a single company in Britain on flexible working hours. In Germany there were in the region of 2 000 organisations representing a million employees, with France, Switzerland and Sweden enthusiastically following their lead. When the British press became aware at that time of the situation in Germany and reported on it at length, there was still only a handful of pioneers who took up the subject in earnest. In the early months of 1972 a number of companies began Flextime experiments including ICI, Pilkington, Allen & Hanburys, Wiggins Teape, Lloyds Life, Norwich Union, Thorntons, a Manchester import firm and Tullos Cold Storage, a firm of Aberdeen shellfish processors, and of course, the civil service. In the autumn of 1972 the action speeded up with Legal & General and London & Manchester starting the rush, and now there are 150 or so organisations in the UK working flexibility representing more than 20 000 employees.

Citation

Greer, I. (1973), "Flexible working hours: A progress report", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 5 No. 5, pp. 246-247. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003315