Learn in the textbookLabor-Related Laws and Regulations
DefinitionA flextime system (フレックスタイム制) fixes the total working hours for a set period (the settlement period) and lets workers decide their own daily start and end times within that total.
ExplanationMany workplaces set core time, when everyone must be at work, and flexible time before and after it, when people can choose when to arrive and leave. What workers can move is the time of day they work, and they still have to meet the total hours for the settlement period.
AnalogyIt is like a club that only fixes the total practice time for the month: apart from the session when everyone gathers, members choose when to come and go.
Memory hook"Flex" means "able to bend". What bends is the time you arrive and leave; the total hours for the period do not.