Ways of Working

Working hours are very different in different countries. In the English-speaking world, people who work full-time regular hours are said to have a nine-to-five job, even if they don't work exactly from 9 am to 5 pm. People with flexible working hours are free, within limits, to work when they want, as long as they do a minimum number of hours. This is known in Britain as flexitime and in the US as flextime.

Another flexible arrangement is to work part-time and share a job with someone else. This is

called job-sharing.

I've worked in an accounts office, so I know I don't want a boring nine-to-jive job.

Many women working long hours on low pay, often with more than one part-time job, naturally resent those who have come to expect the state to provide for them instead of helping themselves.

Employers should encourage programs that give parents time with their children, programs such as parental leave, flextime, shared jobs or work at home.

Flexitime, job-sharing and working from home would be encouraged.

If you commute to work, you live outside a city centre and travel to work there every day. If you do this you are a commuter and you take part in the activity known as commuting.

Teleworkers arc people who work from home using phones, computers and fax machines. This is tcleworking or telecommuting.

A telecottage is a building in the country with the equipment necessary for telecommuting, shared by people who work in this way.

It took Julie an hour to commute home and she would come back tired and frustrated.

The report says that 85 per cent of British commuter traffic is by car, 40 per cent of which is devoted to commuter traffic.

Teenagers nowadays dislike the prospect of commuting and would rather go abroad to work, at least for a time.

One of the major difficulties for teleworkers has been the psychological effect of moving from a sociable to an unsociable environment.

If projections are accurate, many more people will be teleworking in the future.

Godfrey Claff, director at the trust, said:“The center is based on highly successful business telecottage concept from Scandinavia. It will bring the benefits of high technology to companies and people in the surrounding rural area and will attract business from соттercial centers both nationally and internationally.¹