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The freedom to choose which nine hours of overtime you work.
means A work schedule that lets employees choose their own start and end times around a set of core hours, rather than fixing everyone to a rigid 9-to-5.
from A straightforward blend of 'flexible' and 'time,' coined in English in the late 1960s/early 1970s — tracking a German corporate experiment with 'Gleitzeit' (literally 'sliding time'), an early flexible-scheduling scheme that employers elsewhere soon translated and adopted under names like flextime.
- origin
- German engineer invented it in 1967 to ease traffic jams
- the catch
- total hours owed never actually shrinks
- illusion
- feels like freedom, functions like a loyalty test
- reality
- core hours still mean someone is watching the clock