A recent study by Cranfield School of Management suggests that employees given flexible hours by their employers tend to work more intensely than workers with rigid office hours.
Published in the January issue of the journal Human Relations, management professors Clare Kelliher and Deirdre Anderson conducted the study. The researchers used a questionnaire to survey more than 2,000 employees at three large UK-based multi-national companies.
The researchers found that those who worked remotely one day a week and workers who had reduced their required weekly office hours tended to report higher job satisfaction, lower stress and higher loyalty to their company than employees who didn’t have flexible hours.
Cranfield researchers discovered that flexible schedules are also linked to increased work intensity in the form of higher productivity and longer hours.