hey guys II see RG here today we're talking about flexible work schedule
hey guys II see RG here today we're talking flexible work schedule
and what I mean by that is there's no set schedule if you have to be in the
office from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or from
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. or whatever the schedule might be there's no set time
you can flex it off if on one day you want to come in at 10:00 a.m. and the
net and leave at 7:00 a.m. or if you want to come in a little bit early get
in a 7:30 a.m. or 7:00 a.m. and leave at 3:30 3:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m.
then you're allowed to do that you're able to do that and so some places are
not allowed to do that and for some they have good reasons but many do not
so some reasons for not having that is morning meetings where they need to be
in person now we'll do a whole separate video on the
importance of meetings and the over scheduling of meetings that tend to
happen in corporate America but meetings or something like that client meetings
will also be one reason why if you have early morning client meetings more
flexible scheduling won't work I mean you can't flex out of that if you need
to be there you need to be there I think that's pretty self-explanatory but on
normal days you have nothing like that where you're not presenting or anything
like that just normal workdays and flexible work schedule appointment
there's no need for you to be freaking out if you're gonna you know come in a
little bit later to work an hour later to work because you have a doctor's
appointment at 8:00 a.m. or the same thing if if you have a doctor's
appointment you know at 4:00 p.m. so you want to get in a little early at 7:00
a.m. there's no reason why a company should not allow that I think companies
a lot of times well at least in the olden days things are definitely
changing now with Millennials getting into positions of manager
positions and you know running companies but back in the olden days those those
hours were pretty strict and there was no such thing as flexible hours per se
you would either have to take PTO if you had an appointment or just kind of sneak
out the office a little early but I think the whole there's a whole focus on
work-life balance for life integration and you know we really need to put work
in perspective here because as a society especially in American society we tend
to you know work work work all the time our whole life tend to be work based
abound working and really the rat-race of work you know you get a job you buy a
house you have a kid and you just keep trying to climb the ladder over and over
every couple of years you get a promotion every few years you get a
promotion you just climb the ladder to the top and the next thing you know you
look back at your life and you're 65 and all you've been doing is just you know
chasing the ladder chasing that next promotion and you feel like your whole
life just passed you by well I think a lot of that is changing people are
definitely waking up to it and flexible work schedule is something you know that
that's important in the whole the whole basis about the whole like rat race
thing was people felt like the companies controlled their lives and they couldn't
you know they're there's not much room for variation there so with flexible
work schedule thing you're allowed to do that you're allowed to you know have
other aspects of your life come into play and you know you're still able to
get your things done we're still being able to work hard at your job so very
very very important I think it's very especially in clinical research
particularly I think it kind of kind of easy to get away with that because for
one managers aren't necessarily in the office that you work in or in the same
time zone or in the same country I had a manager that was in a different
country for the first two years of my clinical research career and I loved
that I loved having a manager that was not in the office because there was
nobody looking over my shoulder seeing what I was doing
there was nobody checking in on me or you know there was no one checking in on
me face to face I mean she could always message me or email me or call me but
she could never just roll up at my cubicle and see what was going on so she
didn't really know if I was there or not so of course I never abused that but it
helps it's a sigh of relief off your shoulder knowing that nobody is really
watching you and I think it allows you to operate a little bit better so
recently changed positions to a in-house CRA so we'll see I will have a manager
in the same building as me so we'll see how that is I'll do a video on that
obviously what that's like but the Flex I mean my only company that I worked for
didn't didn't really have hard core hours I mean they said you need to be
there in between certain hours but it was just so flexible with people working
from home and you know not having managers in the office if you if you
needed to have an early morning appointment you you could have had a
early morning appointment and it wasn't an issue so I liked that obviously a lot
of a lot of it depends on your manager and even there's differences between the
buildings that you can work in if you're working in the headquarters the culture
tends to be a little bit more uptight there because you've got the executive
team in the building and people are always on their P's and Q's there but I
mean you'll notice that if you ever work as some of the other buildings you know
even in the same city that that does not have the executive team there they're
gonna be a little bit more loose they're gonna be a little more relaxed and you
know just talking to people that have made made moves like that from one
office to another they say it's a world of a difference so I'm curious what you
guys think about that comment down below if you notice the difference between
working in the headquarters or what the executive team versus another building
so a lot of that has to do with company culture but I think pretty much anywhere
if you're working with the executives and senior management and things of that
nature there's probably a different culture at that establishment versus
somewhere else and you know that that's something that can affect the flexible
work schedule to just having those different different cultures even within
the same company so that's something to think about I just want to talk about
this particularly because I think it matters but the world is changing at a
very very fast pace at the time of recording this you know and by the time
I release it it could be you know the world's probably a different place
because I'm recording this particular video probably a month before you guys
will see it but you know there's there's more and more things you know just like
the flexible work schedule and people working from home you know if you that
is a flexible work schedule essentially because you don't have to spend that
extra time in the morning getting ready getting out the office I mean getting to
the office you know that's more time that you have and that you could go to
the your doctor's appointment instead or whatever you need to do in the morning
go to the gym or whatever you need to do so as the world is evolving the world is
changing so definitely be a lot more flexible flexible offerings to the
workplace and you know I think we had a debate recently on the channel about
work from home versus work-life integration so I think as we move more
towards work-life integration we're gonna it's it's gonna be basically just
a whole 24 hour revolving flexible work situation so I think that matters and
we'll see how all that plays out hopefully for the better but that's it
for today's video guys I just want to talk to you guys a little bit about the
flexible work schedule what do you guys think about it
how are your companies act 2 you know if you showed up a little
bit later I just remember my mom almost damn near crying because she was about
to be late for work one day maybe she had a meeting or something but that just
doesn't happen now at any of the companies that I've worked for they're
typically a little bit more flexible with that especially in clinical
research so curious about your guys's opinion on that what do you guys think
about flexible work schedule and that's it for today's video guys like this
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