Workplace flexibility can be an effective strategy to enhance businesses' competitive advantage in the global economy and yield positive business results, while also enabling employees—men, women, parents, non-parents, employees of all ages and at different earning levels—to better manage their responsibilities at home and at work.

Today's employers and employees are increasingly challenged to maximize productivity and profitability—often with less time and fewer resources to do so. In the face of fierce competition, increasingly complicated jobs, and changing workforce demographics, it is more challenging than ever for employers to recruit top talent, engage and retain workers, and maximize productivity. This crunch is also being felt by employees, with growing numbers of employees feeling stretched thin between their responsibilities at home and at work.

A frequent and automatic response to this pressure is to increase the pressure on others—to ask them to do more, to do it faster, and to do it in the same way that work has always been done.

Perhaps surprisingly, this is just the time to support workplace effectiveness and flexibility. Flexibility is a dual-agenda strategy that addresses these challenges very well. Studies show taht employees with more flexibility are more willing to go that extra mile to help their employers.

What is workplace flexibility, how can it benefit employers and employees, and how can organizations use it effectively? The When Work Works Workplace Flexibility Toolkit will answer these and many other questions. It is designed to help all types and sizes of employers—as well as employees—implement and expand workplace flexibility in ways that improve the overall effectiveness of your workforce.

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