"Beyond Flextime: Trashing the Workweek"

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This paper analyzes Scott Westcott's article, "Beyond Flextime: Trashing the Workweek", and describes how it illustrates the benefits of an unparalleled level of autonomy in a work environment, where workers experience virtual freedom as far as scheduling and personal movements are concerned. The paper explains the guiding belief of the article that in an environment where a worker feels freer, he will be motivated to organize his time with his co-workers and thus achieve better results in a more efficient manner. The writer reflects on his work experience and how if the workers would have been entrusted with autonomy and flexibility, they would have been empowered and more productive.

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"This article is ultimately about creating high performance work teams. Employees become more dynamic members of the organization, more effectively suited to successful work teams, and more efficient at forming able work teams to achieve the goals they are assigned to achieve. The article is about moving away from structure and dictation in the work week, and replacing it with an unparalleled level of autonomy injected into the work environment whereby the workers experience virtual total freedom as far as scheduling and personal movements are concerned. Further, they are not answerable to anyone regarding their movements, and the highest level of accountability that they possess is to themselves, in terms of creating their own productive work schedule, which also requires and develops effectively communication and organization with co-workers that tasks get done while each individual moves about on their own schedule and according to their own whimsy almost."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Beyond Flextime: Trashing the workweek. (2008). Retrieved September 23, 2008: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080801/beyond-flextime.html

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