Employees may have their own reasons for preferring one pattern of work to another. For example:
• people with responsibility to care for children, the sick or the elderly may not be able to work certain shifts, weekends or during school holidays
• people with other interests outside paid work may be unavailable at certain times
• because of religious observances
• some people with particular disabilities may be unable to work full-time

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Notice.do?mode=dbl&lang=en&ihmlang=...

Δεδομένου ότι το pattern είναι συνώνυμο του model ( http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pattern ), θα το απέδιδα με τον ελληνικό όρο "εργασιακό μοντέλο".
π.χ. http://www.tovima.gr/politics/article/?aid=501090

Νομίζω πως *μοτίβο εργασίας* είναι ορθότερο. Κοίτα λίγο το εξής κείμενο από http://www.ease.gr/index.asp?a_id=150&ar_id=173 :

Οι αντιπερισπασμοί βλάπτουν σοβαρά τη δημιουργικότητα: Θα μπορούσε κανείς να υποθέσει ότι η διαρκής έκθεση σε νέα πληροφορία μας κάνει, τουλάχιστον, δημιουργικότερους. Ερευνες δείχνουν όμως το αντίθετο. Μία ομάδα του Harvard Business School αξιολόγησε το καθημερινό ****μοτίβο εργασίας ****9.000 ατόμων σε τομείς που απαιτούν δημιουργικότητα και καινοτομία.

Γιατί προτείνω και *σύστημα εργασίας*:

Formal ****work patterns**** are generally understood to be systems of coordinated and controlled activities that arise when work is embedded in complex networks of technical relations and boundary-spanning exchanges. But in modern societies formal organizational structures arise in highly institutionalized

contexts. Professions, policies, and programs are created along with the products and services that they are understood to produce rationally. This permits many new organizations to spring up and forces existing ones to incorporate new practices and procedures. That is, organizations are driven to incorporate the practices and procedures defined by prevailing rationalized concepts of organizational work and institutionalized in society. Organizations that do so increase their legitimacy and their survival prospects, independent of the immediate efficacy of the acquired practices and procedures.

Institutionalized products, services, techniques, policies, and programs

function as powerful myths, and many organizations adopt them ceremonially

In modern societies, the elements of rationalized formal structure are deeply ingrained in, and reflect, widespread understandings of social reality. Many of the positions, policies, programs, and procedures of modern organizations are enforced by public opinion, by the views of important constituents, by knowledge legitimated through the educational system, by social prestige, by the laws, and by the definitions of negligence and prudence used by the courts.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_insti…

In-the-office work patterns

When in the office, people:

* Work at their desk
o On the phone
o On the computer
o Doing paperwork
o Talking with neighbors and visitors
* Work away from their desk
o In meeting rooms
o At the desk of other people
o In labs, demo rooms, training rooms, etc.
* Take breaks and socialize
o Going for coffee
o Going for lunch
o Going to see other people
o Stretching legs, walking and thinking
o Taking ‘bio-breaks’
o Going to and from the building

The Heads-Down pattern

This is the traditional office-worker pattern, where most of their work is carried out at a single desk. Work may be any balance of telephone, computer and paperwork. Although there may be meetings away from the desk with other people, this is a relatively minor part of the job. People from R&D engineers to Personal Assistants work in the heads-down mode.

Heads-down people use meeting rooms less (they are invitees rather than organizers).
The Meeting pattern

The meeter is a person whose job is spent largely in meetings with other people, typically on site. They are thus away from their desk for a significant proportion of the day and are often ‘incommunicado’. Depending on the role, the meetings may range from small and informal groups, to formal large-room large-group meetings. Sales and marketing people are typical meeters, as are a number of managers.

Meeters use their desks less, but may return to it many times a day. People who meet at their desk may be able to manage with less personal desk space whilst having more meeting space.
The Knowledge pattern

The knowledge pattern occurs where the person is a keeper of knowledge, either in a form of a librarian, keeping it for other people, or as an expert, keeping it for their own use. A visible effect of this is that they may well have extended requirements for paper storage, either printer-sized sheets or books and manuals. The ‘modernized’ knowledge owners will now keep much on the computer, and may even be heavy database and/or web designers/users. People with these patterns include Administrators and R&D engineers.
The Hosting pattern

This pattern appears where (primarily) customers are regularly hosted on-site, for demonstration of products, training or simpler meetings. This is typically done by sales and marketing people.

When customers are on-site, there exists a great opportunity to impress the company brand values on them. There is also potential for them encounter sensitive information. There is also a danger of them getting a bad impression. Their experience thus needs to be carefully managed.

Hosting people have more need for the whole customer experience than their own desk. Sales people, for example, have been willing to trade their own space for customer demo space.
The Technical Equipment pattern

The technical equipment pattern appears for people whose jobs involve interaction with technical equipment, often products. Their dilemma is that they not only need a conventional desk—they also need a lab with additional power, equipment racks, secure storage, and so on. The equipment they use will strongly affect the space needs.

Technical Equipment patterns often appear with such as R&D Engineers, Customer Engineers Application Engineers.
The Technical Lab pattern
This pattern is an extension of the Technical Equipment pattern. Not only is equipment used, but it is also opened up and is worked upon. Additional equipment is used, such as test equipment, and soldering may take place. This is common for R&D and post-sales support people.

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