Temporal flexibilization definition
Temporal flexibilization means the – more or less – flexible planning of working hours, whereby this can result in quite different solutions. Models such as part-time work, or reduction of working-hours, shift work, weekend work, and job-sharing can be counted among these forms of work. These models aren’t new – in certain branches as well as in manufacturing, they have long since been an element of the organization of working hours. But nonetheless, some evidence for new methods of temporal flexibilization of work which can be traced back to the use of new ICT could be ascertained in the study. Teleworking, for example, has developed in some countries into a widespread form of employment, which takes the companies’ interests as well as the employees’ time-needs into consideration. In contrast to the other nations participating in the study, teleworking in Germany is done by only a marginal share of the gainfully employed. This also holds true for the Stuttgart regioniv.