Flexi Timings or Fixed Timings - Which is better at Work?

Speaking in a company centric view - As long as no quality and quantity issues with regard to production arise we can have flexi timings..
but we do not live to work we work to live so one would always be on the part of discussion to have flexi-timings but i believe that flexi timings mean first step to lose a rythm of doing work. which would be followed by indisciple slowly creeping in and loosing the concentration on work...thereby a disaster probably..
We can have flexi timings for "Honest people" when i say honest who knows who can never compromise on honesty so it sounds practically impossible...
but this would lead to another question arising admist all the confusion where one would argue saying why should one work beyond the work hours even when the situation demands and it would follow with the rythm of work getting disturbed ,and disciple not being followed by abiding the work hours ...so i would say good to have flexi timinggs during non demanding times and i believe this is again debatable..

Flexi timing may be effective only in case of of jobs where we are given some work to be completed individually and time duration is fixed.then we can personally fix our time of work.But in most of the cases the person fail to complete the work within the time schedule.So,until we are not pressurized to do the work our performance become low and the company suffers.Efficient running of the company suffers and it runs under loss.Whatever may be the job time should be fixed either individually or by the authority.from overall point of view the time should be fixed for execution of work within stipulated time.

Flexi timing and fixed timings cannot be applicable for all kinds of jobs, like in software where an individualis assigned a work, and it doesnot matter if he does it at home or come to office to do it, how he does it whether in a day he inputs 15 hrs or 8 hrs. its whole individuals prerogative to manage his time and deliver the result in stipulated period frame. However it is not the case in case of interdependent job work, unless one step is cleared other step could not be executed in this case all who are invoved have to fix their time schedule.

Yes surely it depends on the nature of work assigned by a personnel to us and the type of industry we are sorking in. It seems to be very awkward that we are studying in night having no light in our room and eating bananas with tea. The flexibility of work should be like that it should cope up with our personal and professional life. Finally i would just say it depends upon the complexity of any work that we should have flexible timings or not.

First it the nature of work that will decide wheather the work can be alloted in a flexible way. Say a retail banker, he cannot work in a fexible timing because the branch hours are fixed. In the case of say a software professional it may be possible to do work at his convenence. If there is a scope for flexi timing the organisation should do all possible ways to make it a reality. Secondly the work has to assigned properly and monitored throughly and for flexi timing the need to do that is greatly increased.

In my opinion, the work should be properly scheduled and should be finished in the fixed time. Flexy time reduces stress both positive and negative stress so our mind becomes more relaxed and failed to do the work on time and finally creates a big tension and ineffecitive completion of work.

Fixed time gives positive stress so that work would be completed smartly within the time period.

According to me when there is hectic schedule and overload of work employee devotes his extra time in that ,so when there is less work there should be opportunity for use flexi time. so there should be flexi time but with responsibility.

According to me, it should be a part of both flexi as well as fix timings so that when there is less load of work, a person can use flexi timing and when he has a hectic schedule, he can go for fix timings!keep the timings as situation based.

Well said, Abhijit. In my point, flexible timing make people lazy. you know , there will be no proper time management and moreover no extra work can be done.

Well, Sowjanya you are partly right according to me. Unless and untill there is proper routine at the workplace the assigned task or project may hardly be executed within the stipulated time period. So I think when you deal with certain important parameters then Flexi timing will hardly execute imporant task. We cannot compromise the work schedule with the personal luxury . To increase our qualifications and all, we have to arrange the time ourseleves only .