The Flexibility Paradigm
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The Flexibility Paradigm
Author: Manar Sweillam Morales
language: en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date: 2025
"The postpandemic "return to the office" movement has thrown organizations, their employees, and their clients into a tailspin. Forced to allow remote working during the onset of COVID-19, with no planning, organizations had a mixed experience. Some made the transition to hybrid workplaces with great success, but others perceived only what they had lost with the move to remote work. Manar Morales, the CEO and founder of the Diversity and Flexibility Alliance, a think-tank for professional services organizations, wrote The Flexibility Shift to show leaders that flexibility has a strong business case: it drives productivity, talent, diversity, engagement, sustainability, and ultimately profitability. Yet organizations need more than a policy. Policies won't bring people back; experiences will. To create the return on experience (ROE) required to make flexibility work, they need a shift in perspective to see flexibility as a way to strengthen their organization. The Flexibility Shift provides the paradigm shift, strategy, and framework for professional services firms and other organizations to create not just a policy but an entire culture that allows their organization to build on their strengths and lead the future of work"--
Working in Silicon Valley
This work examines the relationship between the rapid technological and economic growth characteristic of high technology districts and their distinct labor market institutions - short job tenures, rapid turnover, flat firm hierarchies, weak internal labor markets, high use of temporary labor, unusual uses of independent contracting, little unionization, unusual employee organization (e.g., chat groups, and ethnic organization), unequal income, minimal employment discrimination litigation, flexible compensation (especially stock options), and heavy use of immigrants on short-term visas. The author suggests that while these distinctive labor market institutions are somewhat unorthodox and may present legal problems, they play essential roles in high growth.
Flexible Hybrid Work
Author: Matti Vartiainen
language: en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date: 2024-05-02
Despite hybrid work becoming increasingly relevant since the COVID-19 pandemic, exactly what the phenomenon entails remains a burgeoning field of research. Matti Vartiainen explores this shift in working culture and what it means for staff wellbeing and performance, as well as how remote work policies can be implemented effectively.