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Here in a single list are all the sections and articles in Flexibility. After the introduction, the newer articles are higher up the list in each section.

Overview:

• Flexible Work - General/wide-ranging articles - Flexible location - Flexible technologies - Flexible time- Flexible contracts - Flexible offices
• Case Studies
• Issues - Work-life balance - ICT and sustainability - Modernising government - Travel substitution - Debates
• About Flexibility
• Helpful pages
• Links
• Forum
• Telecommuting 2000

Flexible Work Section

• Index page

General/wide-ranging articles:

• Introduction

• Management 2018 - managing in a flexible, wired and creative world

• Introducing - Flexibility Expertise

• Size matters - smaller firms lag on flexibility

• Introducing - the Smart Work Network

• Flexible work - how the Economist got it wrong

• Equalities Commission says "Work flexibly"

• Flexible work for carers - new "right to request"

• Finding flexible work - and workers

• UK Minister calls for flexible working for all

• UK Conservatives embrace flexible working

• The end of ageism? The flexible response

• Managing flexibility: courses for managers and employees

• Age discrimination and flexible working

• Future workforce, future work

• Flexible conferencing - coming soon to a desktop near you

• The parental "right to request flexible work"

• Summarising the new "right to request" rules

• The strengths and weaknesses of the "right to request" legislation

• Know your staff: Consult them online. Here's how.

• Training for e-work: a flexible approach

• Some Flexibility predictions for 2003...

• eWork & the European Knowledge Economy

• Sunset strategies - new approaches to flexible retirement

• Flexible work uptake in smaller businesses

• Age Positive

• Flexible work - The view from the HR department

• Working in the E-Team

• Work Naked. Really?

• Awareness-raising for flexible work

• Flexible working - law and practice

• How to be an effective e-manager

• Union guides to flexible working

• Flexible working for smaller businesses 

• The aging society - a flexible approach

• Implementing a flexible work project

• The Third Nextra 
  eEurope Report

• 12 ways to screw up a flexible work project

• Tea breaks, e-breaks and control freaks

• Teleworking in the sun: the Crete telework Network

• Organisations and people: flexible work and HR policies
  (7 linked pages)

• A Flexibility Manifesto

• Local authorities go flexible

• Managers under pressure

• HOP and Toshiba link to promote flexible work

• Guide to flexible working (review)

• Flexibility, employability and access to work

• A flexible approach to absenteeism

• Get inside the head of your Chief Executive

Flexible location:

• Introduction

• The Home Business Report

• CIPD reports on telework circa 1995

• Home alone? Assessing isolation

• Inside the "garden office revolution"

• Where to buy a live/work home

• 24/7 working? How to claim back some work-life balance

• Home office, garden office

• Mobile/remote work on the up - Citrix research

• Healthy working tips for homeworkers

• Local councils and mobile technology

• Time to Go Home - says Work Foundation

• Teleworking in Ireland: new facts and figures

• Teleworkers: who and how many?

• Health & Safety issues for teleworking

• Profile: The Telework Association 

• Bosses going home - can we come too?

• Study on Live-Work space

• DTI Guide to Working Anywhere

• European Telework trends

• Managing Telework

• Different types of home workers

• Health & Safety for homeworkers

Flexible Technologies:

• Introduction

• Top 10 Telephony Tips for flexible workers

• Internet phone calls for flexible working

• Sharing voice and content with remote teams

• Home office videoconferencing

• Leading-edge training for mobile technologies

• Tablets to smooth the way for mobile working

• Remote access the easy way - using the web browser

• Low budget virtual meetings - web conferencing

• Videoconferencing - close encounters of the distant kind

• Technologies for working anywhere

• Getting to grips with Broadband

• Wireless working

• The Victorian Internet (review)

Flexible Time:

• Introduction

• Flexible time options - an overview

• Flexible workers - and flexible rostering

• Part-time work: who wants it?

• The Flexible Executive

• Productivity, longer hours and laptop users

• Managers and the long hours culture

Flexible Contract:

• Introduction 

• The role of the Interim Manager

• The Agency Workers' Directive - Jobs at risk?

• The future of flexible staffing

• Flexible work = Contract chaos?

Flexible Offices:

• Introduction 

• Honey I shrunk the office - so what's the formula?

• Sharing the space - how hot are your desks for flexible workers?

• Meet the PowerDesk - integrated desk/computer

• Hot-desking in your part-time office

• Property, facilities, output and productivity

• Know your space: measure for change

• World Cup, hamsters and office fun

• Working off stress in the Mind Gym

• Guide to flexible facilities 
  (7 linked pages)

• Death of the office?

• The Office of Tomorrow

Case Studies

• Introduction

• The UK's largest Virtual Call Centre

• Telework at Nortel Networks

• Case studies in "sustainable telework"

• Hertfordshire County Council

• Child Benefits Office

• Teleworking MP

• Digital Finland

Issues Section

• Introduction

Work-Life Balance:

• Introduction

• Legal balancing act for work-life balance

• How father-friendly is your company?

• The nature and pattern of family-friendly employment

• Work-life balance - reality and lip -service

• Online resources for work-life balance

• Not enough flex in the City

• Upgrade to shorter working hours?

• Flexible work central to work-life balance

• Turn It Off!

• Trends and Issues in Work-Life Balance

• Work-Life: a Flexibility checklist

• Work-Life - government website

ICT and Sustainability:

• Introduction

• Encouraging greener teleworking

• Can the knowledge economy help to combat climate change?

• ICT and Sustainability: Flexibility briefing paper

Modernising Government:

• Introduction

• Talking about changing the government...

• Progress report on e-government

• Changing the way government works

• Information Age planning

• Community development and ICT

• Tackling the Digital Divide
  (3 articles)

• Putting the "e-" into local e-government (5 linked pages)

• Using ICT to promote regeneration
  (6 linked pages)

• Government report on Teleworking and Local Government

Travel Substitution:

• Introduction

• Transport for London says: Don't travel

• Cutting business travel: RAC Foundation study

• Beating congestion on the broadband highway

• How to reduce work travel through e-work - a practical approach

• Virtual Mobility - Taking forward the research agenda in the UK

• Get out of your cars, says RAC

• Time, mobility and economic growth

• Virtual mobility and its impact on travel

• Travel Plans and ICT

• Britain's transport troubles

• Travel Substitution - what we know and what we don't

• The Shortest Way to Work - Dublin telecommuting study

Economic Development:

• Aiming for Smart Economic Growth

About Flexibility

• About Us

• Supporters

• Introducing - Flexibility Expertise

• Registration & Feedback

Helpful Pages

• Search Page

• Glossary 

• Sitemap - this page!

• Jargonbusters 1 - Tongue-in-cheek guide to flexible working jargon

• Jargonbusters 2 - similar guide to technical jargon

• e-words - putting the e- into e-verything...

Links Page

• Links

Forum

• Forum welcome page

Telecommuting 2000

• Home Page 
  Linked website with summary report of Telecommuting 2000 project (on travel substitution)

Pages tailored to your interests

Another way to find articles of interest is to check out the selection of articles we've made for different directions of interest:

• Managers

• Employees

• Workplace Designers

• ICT suppliers

• Government and public policy-makers

• Individual home workers

• Researchers