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Find your way around Flexibility

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 - Public Policy
• About Flexibility
• Helpful pages
• Links

Flexible Work Section

• Index page

General/wide-ranging articles:

• Introduction

• Flexible working is good for your health and wellbeing

• Prime Minister backs flexible & remote work

• Long distance commuters more likely to leave job

• Flexible Work is better work, say Equality leaders

• 10 million parents to get right to request flexible work

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

• Sexism and the City - Flexibility is key

• 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

• Tomorrow's Property Today - low carbon live/work space

• 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

• The rise and rise of the UK home worker - 2005 LFS figures

• 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

• 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

• New working environments at the National Army Museum

• Flexibility in half the space

• Smart Working at Islington Council

• Constructing a better balance

• Flexible tailors

• You've got AA friend at home!

• The UK's largest virtual call centre

• Case study - flexible barristers' chambers

• Case studies in "sustainable telework"

Issues Section

• Introduction

Work-Life Balance:

• Flexible work good for families - not least Dads, says UK Department for Business
• The Minister's view
• Home alone?  Assessing and overcoming the dangers of isolation
• Working 24/7 How to claim back some work-life balance
• A right to request flexible work for job candidates?
• Balancing work and the rest of life
• 10 million parents now have 'right to request' flexible working
• Requesting flexible work - how do I do it?

• Being 'CEO of Me' - Knowing your Flexstyle

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

• Government Workplace 2020

• 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

Public Policy:

• 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

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