Employer 2009

Employers Should Update Rules for Unscheduled Time Off, June 2008

"What's going on today is that people need to manage both personal and work responsibilities at the same time," says Sandy Burud, chief strategy officer of FlexPaths LLC, a workplace flexibility Web software provider based in Monrovia. "There's a new way of thinking about this."

Flexible Workplace: Lots of Talk, Little Action

“We've created a way to manage flexibility that is inflexible. It's an oxymoron. It's also not working as well as it could because it's reactive and one-off. Companies that take a formal approach to flexibility are missing out on the real potential of flexibility and opportunities to take a broader, more strategic and more inclusive approach to it. Formal flexibility arrangements are just one leg of a three-legged stool. The other legs are informal flexibility and career flexibility. “