CHENNAI: New-age Indian professionals value flexible working conditions the most, finds a recent

-- titled ‘Future of Flexible Working Survey’ -- by Shine.com.

According to the survey, 60% of respondents wanted flexible working options to maintain an optimal work-life balance.

Almost 14% of the respondents said avoiding traffic was a key reason to seek such policies while 6% wanted to save on cost of commute by working from home.

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Further, over 39% of employees mentioned that they would like their organisations to offer flexible working hours on a daily basis. Conventional options such as

are also important, but only around 6% are looking for this option.

The survey identifies perception bias associated with work from home as a key hurdle.

Almost one-fifth of the employees surveyed felt that their bosses and colleagues have perception issues and do not realise how much they really work from home.

Another challenge that 22% of respondents faced while working remotely was the inability to stop working even after office hours.

“While flexible working options were earlier limited to IT-based profiles, the survey revealed that other roles such as accounting, finance, HR, and admin are also catching up with modern workforce trends,” the survey said.

Speaking about the findings, Zairus Master, CEO, Shine.com, said, “Of late, the team at Shine.com has come across several candidate resumes that mention flexible working options as one of the top priorities. This survey was aimed at understanding why Indian professionals want flexible working and how organisations could improve their employee satisfaction and talent retention by adopting more non-conventional HR policies aligned with the requirements of their workforce.”

The survey was conducted with professionals across functional areas including accounts and finance, production, HR, and sales. 70% of the total respondents in the survey fell into the age bracket of 22-30 years, indicating how more millennials preferred to strike a healthy balance between professional and personal lives.