Özet:

Globalization, development in information technologies, rise of the service sector, demographic changes, economic crises have caused significant changes in employee and employer relations. These changes have started a period of flexibility in working relationships by directly affecting working hours and styles, the use of new technologies and the structure of the workforce. In this flexibility period in which the understanding of protecting the worker and the enterprise was adopted together, arrangements called flexible working emerged. In this study, flexibility, which is divided into five groups as internal and external numerical, functional, wage flexibility and distancing strategies, is discussed in the context of employment styles, working periods and policies of balancing work and family life. Flexible working arrangement, which is used depending on the employee profile, business, industry, and country conditions, has significant effects on working conditions. This study is intended as an assessment of the increasing importance of flexible working regulation with COVID-19. Flexible working is analyzed under the titles of definition, content, application, advantages and disadvantages, and presents a perspective to ensure the rights of the labor force and production continuity in the changing labor market and especially in crisis situations such as epidemics.

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