Traffic light account

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The traffic light account is a further development of the classic working time account as a control element for flexible working hours . The traffic light account also functions like a savings book , in which working hours can be accumulated or withdrawn in the company. The plus and minus volume of the account is divided into three areas which, based on the logic of a traffic light , are designated as green, yellow and red areas.

Areas

The three areas of the traffic light account are defined as follows:

  • Green area : In the green area there is a slight deviation from the contractually agreed working hours. It is assumed that the employees in ownership , the increase or decrease in working to reverse. Intervention by the superior is not required.
  • Yellow area : The yellow area already shows a considerable accumulation of excess or under-work that cannot be easily compensated. For this phase, specific measures must therefore be taken, such as that further overtime may only be done with the approval of the supervisor or that the employees are obliged to agree on measures to reduce this in the team.
  • Red area : The red area indicates that it is already difficult to reduce the accumulated overtime in day-to-day business. In this case, the employee and the supervisor must agree on specific measures to return to the green area
Example of a traffic light account agreement

advantages

The advantage of the traffic light account model lies in the built-in “attention thresholds” that can be linked to specific measures. In this way, significant deviations in the hourly account, up or down, can be identified in good time. With working time models that are predominantly controlled by employees, the traffic light account is often based on the logic of shared control responsibility. Smaller balances tend to be the responsibility of the employee, while the management of higher balances is primarily the responsibility of the manager . Limitations of the control concept arise, however, in particular if the employee, for example in knowledge-intensive fields of work, has a very pronounced temporal independence and the manager has fewer opportunities to exercise control including the associated directives.

Web links

  • Working time account with traffic light - an Excel tool for the simple recording and evaluation of working times from Arbeitszeitbox.de - a project of the IAW - Chair and Institute for Ergonomics at RWTH Aachen University (funded by "INQA - Initiative New Quality of Work")

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamm, Ingo: Flexible working hours - account models . Ed .: Hans Böckler Foundation. 2nd Edition. Bund-Verlage, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-7663-6285-8 , p. 53 .
  2. ↑ Corinna Jaeger, Frank Lennings: Field of activity “Shaping working hours” . In: Performance in operation . Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-662-43397-3 , pp. 133–218 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-43398-0_9 ( springer.com [accessed February 27, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b working time account. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Christopher Schlick, Ralph Bruder, Holger Luczak: Ergonomics . Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-56036-5 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-56037-2 ( springer.com [accessed February 27, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Dr. Christian Schlottfeldt: Design time accounts correctly. In: Haufe Personal Office Platinum. Retrieved February 27, 2019 .