A young programmer approached Mary Finlay with a request: After just a year on the job, he wanted to work four 10-hour days so he could have every Friday off, a schedule that would allow him to play Thursday night gigs with his rock band without worrying about the next day’s work.
Many IT executives would say no, but Finlay, deputy CIO at Partners HealthCare System Inc. in Boston, OK’d the plan. “He was smart and talented, and we wanted to keep him,” she explains.
Her decision paid off: He stayed with Partners for nearly a decade.
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“Study after study shows that it is extremely cost-effective and very good business to provide flexibility to your employees,” says Barbara Wankoff, national director of workplace solutions at KPMG LLP, an audit, tax and business advisory firm in New York. “Employee morale, employee productivity, retention, historical knowledge — all of those things improve when people feel they have more control over when, where and how they work.”
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