Business Case Studies on Workplace Flexibility - A Template

More and more companies are using flexibility in the workplace as a strategy to meet employee needs and achieve business results. Practice and research are in agreement: flexibility helps work work. Used right, it can be key to building engaged workforces, productive workplaces, and competitive businesses.

Is your company effectively using flexibility? Please tell us about it. From formal policies to piloted initiatives to creative uses for informal flexibility, we want to know how flexibility is being used, what the challenges have been, and what the outcomes are.

To submit your story on flexibility in the workplace, please answer the following questions. Be as brief or as lengthy as you wish. If some questions don't apply, skip them; if others are missing, add them. Email your response to WhenWorkWorks@familiesandwork.org or fax it to 212-981-2565. You can also fill out an online form and submit it here.

Your company's story will be added to a growing list of innovative business case studies on workplace flexibility and posted on this Web site*. This collection is a rich educational resource for employers, employees, the media, and the general public on the implementation of flexibility in the workplace.

When Work Works is a nationwide initiative from Families and Work Institute, with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to highlight the importance of flexibility in the workplace as a strategy to enhance businesses' competitive advantage and yield positive business results.

For more information about When Work Works or about what workplace flexibility is and how it can help your company, please visit www.WhenWorkWorks.org.

*Due to space limitations and other factors, some responses may be edited prior to posting.