Flexi work hours help women rise in corporates: Assocham

Women professionals are moving up in the corporate ranks, encouraged by the flexible working hours they are getting from their employers, a survey found.

"Due to flexi working hours, childcare facilities at offices and options of working from home, women professionals are moving up corporate ranks and managing home as well with aplomb," an Assocham's survey said.

The survey covered 4,000 professional, including 2,500 women, the chamber said.

The findings reveal that most of the working women, especially the mothers, prefer flexible working hours so that they could manage at both home as well as workplace.

"Comfortable shifts allow mothers to take care of kids and give them an option to spend more time with their family," the chamber said.

Mothers working full-time give themselves slightly "lower ratings" as parents than do at-home mothers or mothers employed part-time, it added.

The respondents said flexibility in office timing, brings greater job satisfaction, reduces absenteeism and minimises stress.