Flexitime ‐ Past Investigations and Future Directions

From its origins in West Germany in the late sixties ‘flexitime’ has spread in various forms across Europe, The United States and the Western World generally. A number of organisations have emerged to provide time recording equipment for monitoring flexitime systems, their rapid growth in the seventies bears witness to the fertile conditions for flexitime which evidently existed during that period. In the U.K. applications of flexitime have been in Insurance, Banking, the Civil Service and Local Government as well as retailing and manufacturing.