Share your story

Is your organization effectively using flexibility? Share your story using the form below and add your organization's success story to a growing list of innovative business case studies on workplace flexibility, which are posted on www.whenworkworks.org. Sharing your story-from formal policies to piloted initiatives to creative uses for informal flexibility-is the perfect way to inspire and educate employers, employees, the media, and the general public on the implementation of flexibility in the workplace.

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Summary -

Briefly describe a flexibility initiative at your company that you are proud of, or an instance when informal flexibility was used. What business needs does flexibility meet? What employee needs?
How does it work?

- Who is eligible to work flexibly at your company, and how do they become approved for its use? Are formal or informal processes in place? Please describe.

Background and history

- When did flexibility first become implemented and why?
Obstacles and solution strategies

- What obstacles or resistance to flexibility have you encountered? How have these been addressed? What strategies have been most successful, least successful in addressing obstacles?
Results

- What are the results of implementing workplace flexibility? Please include business results as well as how employees and their families have been affected. What is the utilization?
Going forward

- What are your future plans for flexibility? What are the lessons learned from implementing flexibility?
Advice -

What advice would you offer to a company interested in starting a flexibility initiative?

   

Supporting documents - If there are additional documents related to flexibility that you would like to share, such as a company policy statement, employee tool, or manager guidelines, please send them to us with your company name included:

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