New Ways of Working Network

“Flexible workplaces are ‘all the rage.’ Why? In part, because flexible work options have the potential to contribute to workplace effectiveness and can offer benefits to employees as well as to the organizations where they work.”

This Issue Brief from the Sloan Center on Aging & Work presents selected findings about workplace flexibility using data from their Age & Generations Study.

The Sloan Center on Aging & Work defines workplace flexibility to mean that employees and their supervisors have some choice and control over when, where, how work gets done, and what work tasks are assumed by which employees/work teams.