#Flextime

Flex time is hailed as the banner of workstyle reform, yet in reality it only shifts the start line while the storm of meetings rages on, providing workers fresh excuses for being late. It boasts of testing self-management, even as bosses’ emails continue their round-the-clock surveillance. It proclaims the freedom to choose when to arrive, but ensnares employees with unspoken rules about leaving, a chain masquerading as liberty. Said to boost employee happiness, it paradoxically encourages early birds and night owls alike to sacrifice their personal time. Above all, it is a contraption devised to burden everyone with new calculations of labor hours, the ultimate administrative saga.