4-day work week? Just one of 12 test perks

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Making the Navy more attractive
Group taking close look at new personnel policies


4-day work week? Just one of 12 test perks
By Mark D. Faram - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Jan 27, 2008 8:45:25 EST

Commanders could soon have the blessing from “Big Navy” to offer their sailors four-day workweeks — or at a minimum, give them the chance to work out flexible hours for their sailors.

Flexible work hours are just one of 12 perks Navy officials have in the works or are investigating in a major drive to get younger sailors to join the Navy and stay.

This means that soon, sailors could be able to not only negotiate flexible hours with their commands, but also telecommute from home or off-site work centers. They might even take sabbaticals or homestead in one location for a chunk of their careers.

“What we’re doing here is building a menu of options for our work force,” said Rear Adm. Mike LeFever, head of manpower and plans for the chief of naval personnel in Arlington, Va. “We are quickly learning that one-size-fits-all policies we have in place today won’t work in the future.”

It’s all on the table for what the Navy’s calling Task Force Life/Work, a group charged with taking a deep look at all the Navy’s personnel policies from pay to family perks to education benefits.


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