Pursuing a more individual approach to work by employees; or the ability of workers to adjust their labour situation in a flexible and adequate way to their (changing) personal living circumstances. Employees seem to be interesting chiefly in flexible working time, both its length and its adjustment to personal needs.
The regular labour pattern may be defined as having the following characteristics: (a) full-time; (b) working hours between 08:00 and 18:00; (c) employment contract of unlimited duration; (d) function consisting of a limited number of clearly described tasks; (e) fixed or structural wages. Employment contracts are flexible if the duration, the scope and the wages vary in time or between (groups of) employees.