Hanging on the Telephone: Temporal Flexibility and the Accessible Worker

Abstract

Abstract In this chapter we consider the impact of flexible working time arrangements on the UK chemical industry. We focus on annualized hours agreements, which provide managers with a strategy for extending workers’ temporal availability. First, however, and in order to begin to explore some of the consequences of this temporal redefinition of the employment relationship, let us consider the following examples, in which managers describe some of the difficulties encountered in implementing annualized hours.