ways-of-working-definition--advantage-and-disadvantage-bec中级.doc

Definition
Advantage
Disadvantage
freelance
a. Also called: freelancer  a self-employed person, 
esp a writer or artist, who is not employed continuously but hired to do specific assignments.
b. ( as modifier ): a freelance journalist
c. erning money by selling works or services to several different companies or organizations rather than being directly employed by a particular one.

• you are boss you can choose your job freely only if you have the skills or the abilities.
• the more hard-working the more money
• you have to deal with many companies so you can improve yourself and learn more things.

• no job security.
• you have to deal with many companies, so you may feel stressed and tired.
• hard to make great achievements
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teleworking
The practice of working from home, communicating with your office, customers and others by telephone, e-mail, fax or modem, etc
• organize your work time
• maybe you have more free time
• the job is easy and you can feel relaxed

• you need to be good at self-organization
• you have to work with computer and phone, it may affect your health
• noisy environment:disturbed by family
• .low efficiency: get lazy

Job-sharing
An arrangement for two people to share the hours of work and the pay of one job
• you have more free time.
• share ideas. get support from each other.
• learn from other people's strong points.

• you have to coordinate with other person
• low income
• problem with partern

Shift work
An employment practice designed to
make use of the 24 hours
a period of time worked by a group of workers who start work as another group finishes

• have your own time and enjoy yourself
• It has great impact on the wellbeing, performance, and sleep of shiftworkers.
• It brings lower stress levels, better physical and psychological wellbeing, improved durations and quality of off duty sleep as well as improvements in family relations.
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• sometimes your time is controlled by your work time
• Health effects/tired
• Shifeworkers have smaller amounts of common free time at their disposal for contacts with schoolgoing children than dayworkers.
• with difficulties in the following areas: physical health, social interactions, job satisfaction and morale, motivation, and various job-related behaviors.

Part time
for part of the day or week in which people work

• it is only for a couple of months and you can have enough time to do the things your want to do.
• Working part time can be a good way of balancing your work and your personal commitments. If you work part time, you have the right to be treated fairly in comparison to your full-time colleagues.

• your cannot got the steady income
• Most part-time workers don't earn benefits, such as health insurance or eligibility for an employer-sponsored retirement savings plan.
• Part-time workers may lack steady hours, with employers who can reduce hours--and subsequently pay--when business is slow.

temping
to do a temporary job in an office or a series of temporary jobs in different companies

• your are your own boss and you can control your own time
• you have los of choice.(lots of variety)

• hard to progress your career
• your cannot got the steady income and you will lose the job anytime

consultancy
a company that gives expert advice on a particular subject to other companies or organizations; expert that a company or a person is paid to provide on a particular subject.

• well paid
• easy to hire and fire ; New skills ; Stick to your core business ; Economic ; More productive ; Cost avoidance
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• no job security
• Higher cost ; Overseas outsourcing can fail ; No knowledge of in-house procedures
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flexitime
You work a number of hours per week
or month but you decide when start or finish
a system in which employees work a particular number of each week or month but can choose when they start and finish work each day

• good for work-life balance
• Flextime allows employers to schedule workflow around employee availability.
• It also allows employees to choose their schedule from available slots in advance, giving them the ability to work around other commitments.

not good for people who like routine
It is hard to make everyone of your team to present when your business requires team meetings or collaborative work sessions

Hot-desking
an office organization system which involves multiple workers using a single physical work station or surface during different time periods.

• saves the company money
• cost saving in furniture or overheads such as electricity, phone bills, computer maintenance rent, air-conditioning , etc.
• Hot Desking ensures efficient call delivery, by providing full location independent working .

• disruptive to employees
• you have to carry evevything around your bag
• no personal territory or privacy

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