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strategies adopted by business to meet their HR needs

  1. Outsourcing- contracting jobs to external labour

  2. Flexible working practices- business has core time where employees have to be present but then allowe the rest of there hours to be worked at times that suit them

  3. Term time working- workers don’t work school holidays

  4. Structured time off in Lieu (TOIL)- workers may be asked to work longer hours in busier periods and then get that time off in compensation

  5. Job sharing- where some businesses allow workers to share a job

    +able to work hours that suit them Term

    -careful planning will be required

  6. Remote working- working away from the premises e.g home

    +productivity increase due to less disctractions

    -difficult to check what employees are doing

  7. Zero hours contract- allows employees to hire staff with no guarantee of work

    +cheaper than using agency staff

    -there is no certainty of employees

  8. Compressed hours- alternative working week in terms of the number of days per week worked by employees

    +easy congestion

    -longer working day for employees

  9. Annualised hours- where employees work a total number of hours for the year as a whole

    +allows employees flexibility

    -being ‘on all’ may be restrictive for employees

  10. Fire and rehire- an employer lets people go in order to hire someone on lower wage