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flexitime|ˈflɛksɪtaɪm|
Also flexi-time, flexi time.
[f. flexible a. + time n.; cf. flextime.]
An arrangement whereby employees, while working a contracted number of hours, are free to vary (within prescribed limits) their starting and finishing times.
1972Business Week 7 Oct. 80/1 ‘Everybody told us flexi-time was pie in the sky,’ says Gösta Rehn. 1972N.Y. Post 29 Dec. 21/1 Comments from workers and employers list multiple advantages of flexitime. 1973Monthly Labor Rev. (U.S. Dept. Labor) Feb. 3/2 In Europe, the move has been toward flexible workweeks, or ‘flexi-time’, that change neither the total number of workdays nor the total hours required. 1973Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 8 July 34/2 Flexitime—a new word meaning staggered work hours, work days and work weeks. 1975New Society 14 Aug. 354/2 The 100,000 or so office workers who happen to be on ‘flexi time’. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 424/2 In most cities, the relief which staggering—including the ‘flexitime’ system—can afford is fairly limited. 1982Daily Tel. 22 July 12/7 Solutions..are predictable but not easy to achieve: more flexi-time; shorter working weeks; leave-years for both parents of young children. 1985Observer (Colour Suppl.) 14 Apr. 26/3 The involved and caring father who..works flexitime to ensure that he goes on being as positive a presence in the child's life as she is. |