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Flexible Employment Summaries

Do you have to look after your kids, care for a sick family member or commute for hours every day? These are just some of the arguments against a fixed nine-to-five, five-days-a-week job. Successful organizations offer their employees flexible working hours.

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The Virtual Manager
 

Kevin Sheridan

Career Press, 2012

(8)

The Corporate Lattice
 

Cathleen Benko and Molly Anderson

Harvard Business Review Press, 2010

(8)

Mass Career Customization
 

Cathleen Benko and Anne Weisberg

Harvard Business Review Press, 2007

(9)

The Boomer Retirement Time Bomb
 

Donald L. Venneberg and Barbara Welss Eversole

Praeger, 2010

(7)

Work + Life

Cali Williams Yost

Riverhead, 2004

(7)

Reworking Retirement

Allyn I. Freeman and Robert E. Gorman

Adams Media, 2007

(7)

Managing the Telecommuting Employee

Michael Amigoni and Sandra Gurvis

Adams Media, 2009

(8)

Going Solo

William J. Bond

McGraw-Hill, 1997

(6)

The Future of Work

Charles Grantham

McGraw-Hill, 2000

(5)

Get the Best from a Career Break

Steps to Success

A&C Black, 2005

(7)

Empowering Employees

Mimi Meredith and Kenneth L. Murrell

McGraw-Hill, 2000

(5)

101 Tips for Telecommuters

Debra A. Dinnocenzo

Berrett-Koehler, 1999

(7)

Encore
 

Marc Freedman

Public Affairs, 2007

(7)

The 60-Second Commute

Erica Orloff and Kathy Levinson

FT Prentice Hall, 2003

(6)

More Build It Big
 

Direct Selling Women's Alliance

Kaplan Publishing, 2006

(7)

Work and Family - Allies or Enemies?

Stewart D. Friedman and Jeffrey H. Greenhaus

Oxford UP, 2000

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Work Naked
 

Cynthia C. Froggatt

Jossey-Bass, 2001

(7)

Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies

Stephen R. Barley and Gideon Kunda

Princeton UP, 2004

(8)

Manager of Choice

Nancy S. Ahlrichs

Davies-Black, 2003

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Flexible Employment

Flexible employment may not be an option in certain industries, but clearly the trend continues to pick up significant momentum. Companies sensitive to work-life balance issues are creating flexible schedules in hopes of boosting job satisfaction and preventing employees from seeking other opportunities. If your organization has already instituted flexible employment or you’re considering it, please allow getAbstract to keep you fully informed with our flexible employment book summaries.

Whether it’s remote employment, home employment or a variation, you’ll find an abundance of beneficial information in our library. We consistently add interesting and helpful summaries to this category so you stay current with trends in flexible employment. You’ll learn about the wide variety of flexible employment options and practices, including staggered start times, telecommuting, compressed work weeks and job sharing.

Mutual Benefits

The growing popularity of flexible employment is the result of employers and employees both seeking mutual benefits. Our summaries will explain how companies, in recognizing the time constraints and multiple responsibilities their employees face, are trying to provide practical solutions. getAbstract shows why flexible employment, if properly executed, improves worker productivity and morale, reduces stress and absenteeism and can attract potential new employees.

getAbstract makes it easy for you to be well-informed about flexible employment by making our summaries available in a central location. In just a few seconds, you can access our flexible employment book summaries and find exactly what you’re looking for. And since it only takes around 10 minutes to read a summary, your knowledge will increase in no time.

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