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JulietBourke, a partner at Aequus Partners, is concerned that 'the whole paradigm has shifted to something a littlenegative-that is, flexibility is now about how we get more out of fewer people'.Ross Gittins argues workers pay the penalty for one way flexibility. Although the Fair Work Act makes it moredifficult for employers to buy out penalty rates, employers continue to seek to redefine ordinary hours of work. In2012 the banks sought to redefine ordinary hours of work to include Saturday and Sunday. They argued this wasto 'promote flexible and efficient modern work practices in a way that had proper regard to the considerationsof productivity and employment costs'. Ross Gittins claims the flexibility being sought is 'one sided', becauseemployers gain employees when they need them in order to maximise profits.Both flexible working and work–life balance are important contemporary agendas within organizations and could have both positive and negative consequences.Many organizations use to look ways for reducing their costs and streamlining their operations. Many companies are trying to have a check so that they could look at ways of reducing payrolls as company’s payroll is typically its biggest cost base. Most of the companies are formulating strategies to avoid redundancies within their organizations. As such, there is a renewed interest in workforce flexibility and how this could provide employees with more personal time and reduce costs for employers.In the situations when organizations have to perform staff cut, some staff use to see this as the opportunity to hone and develop new skills and demonstrate their capacity and capability for career progression. Hence, it is important to understand the concept of work-life balance as it means differently for different people. Also, it depends on the level of the hierarchy of organizations of which they are part of, i.e., an employer and an employee have different perspectives on the flexibility in work and in the work-life balance.Other employees find the increased workload to be stressful and also consider it as detrimental to the balance in their work and life. People are becoming more stressed and their health and wellbeing may be at more risk, especially in those organizations, where job security is threatened and/or employees use to carry extra workload. Generally, people use to work for longer duration in workplaces where workload is higher.
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