Commuting fewer days by implementing compressed work week schedules

What employers can do to implement a compressed work week schedule program for employees:

• Establish program goals and metrics
• Determine how to measure job performance
• Work with employees, payroll staff and labor organizations to develop suitable policies and practices
• Write program policies and procedures for work hours (including core hours and overtime); create forms such as an application and compressed work week schedule agreement between employee and supervisor 
• Notify managers and employees about program
• Select and train participants and telework supervisors
• Integrate telework into your organization’s Emergency Management/Business Continuity plan

Compressed work week schedules

With a compressed work week, the total nmber of hours an employee works does not change; only the way his or her hours are scheduled changes. The most typical compressed work week schedules are: 

• 4/10s: Forty hours are worked in four 10-hour days
• 9/80s: Eighty hours are worked in eight 9-hour days and one 8-hour day
• 3/12s: Thirty-six hours are worked in three 12-hour days