Flex Fridays Are Out of Synch at NASA
Reader note: “Today JSC started their new “9/80 flex Friday” work plan. They basically work 80 hours in 9 days, then take off every other Friday, BUT, completely out of sync with all the other NASA Centers that already had flex Fridays happening on the opposite Fridays. As a result, some folks at all Centers will have to continue to work on their scheduled flex Fridays. A little coordination on this between CD’s would have made sense …”
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.
Based on my experience, Johnson has been doing things their own way and the heck with the other centers for the last 30 years.
Stop the JSC hatred already. JSC has had 9/80 for at least the last 5 years.
So NASA always has someone on duty every Friday. I hope those people get the alternate Friday off.
The nice thing about the JSC friday schedule is it aligns with Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day so maybe the other centers want to switch to the better work/life balanced Off friday.
I think they chose it to sync with Lockheed for the MPCV
many other contractors also already had the same 9/80 schedule
Flex schedule is mostly meaningless at JSC. For those of us in MOD we always have training or meetings to support ISS operations on Friday. Simulator time is too valuable to shut down for a whole day.
This is kind of silly. There are about a dozen ways NASA employees can charge their time. Employees are generally allowed to choose their off day in the systems that allow them.