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Acknowledgements vii
About the Authors ix
Chapter 1. Workplace Flexibility:
Snapshots of a Work-in-Progress
by Paul Rupert 1
Workplace Flexibility Today 2
How Flexible Is Flextime? 4
Why Compress a Workweek? 6
Flexplace: If Its Time Has Come, Where Has It Gone? 8
On the Changing Character of Work, Workers,
and the Workplace 10
Reduced Worktime Options 12
Flexible Staffing Or the Contingent Workforce 14
A Quick Review of Leave Time 17
How Work Sharing Differs From Job Sharing 18
Forces that Will Drive Flexibility in
the 1990s and Beyond 19
A Word to Internal Champions 2-1
Chapter 2. The NFAIS Flexible Workstyles Survey 23
Survey Demographics 25
Chapter 3. Flexible Worktime 29
Flextime 32
Compressed Workweek 38
Part-time Employment 43
Leave Time 50
Chapter 4. Flexible Workplace and Other Trends 55
Flexplace 58
Contractors and Consultants 65
Other Flexible Workstyles 68
Chapter 5. Emerging Trends-
Summary of the NFAIS Survey 69
Flextime 69
Compressed Workweeks 71
Part-time Employment 71
Leave Time 73
Flexplace 74
Employment of Contractors
and Consultants 76
Other Flexible Workstyles 77
Conclusion 78
Chapter 6. Information Access Company's
Telecommuter Program: A Marriage
of Human Resources and Technology
by Kip Rosmarin 81
Introduction 81
History of the Homer Program 84
A Time for Change 86
Current Homer Program 89
Homers: Who, What, Where, When, and Why 99
Conclusion 104
Bibliography 1'07
Index 111