The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs shall enter into a research agreement for the period 2016-2018, in order to map the use, and analyse the effects of different types of flexible work schedule schemes on working life.

The Departments wants to take a closer look at what ‘flexibility in working hours means, what types of schemes can be found and the scope of these. Furthermore, it is desirable to gain more knowledge about how this is distributed across workers/industry, education, age and gender. A central question is also whether the employees want such schemes and if it is correct that technological development has contributed to major ‘freedom’ for the individual employee. Knowledge of advantages and disadvantages of increased use of such schemes will also be relevant. The Department wants to further investigate how the use of flexible working schedule schemes affect the total quantity of working hours, hereunder use of overtime. The objective of the assignment is to gain a clearer picture of and more knowledge about the use, the need for and advantages/disadvantages of using flexible working schedule schemes.

Please refer to Annex 1 to the contract for further description of the assignment.