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Hourly Workers Need Flexibility the Most, But Are Often the Least Likely to Get It

Harvard Business Review

The idea of flexibility-driven mutual gains is especially appealing now, when gender equity is at the media forefront and where nonwork demands and job stress are on the rise. This saved thousands on real estate in expensive urban areas, and employees relished the shorter commutes and the ability to attend to personal needs when not working.

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Bring Nomadic Employees Back to the Mothership

Harvard Business Review

By 2015, 1.3 While we can thank technology and increasingly flexible office policies for the shift away from the office, for many companies, mobility has simply been an unintended consequence of trying to keep pace with change, as well as a calculable means to rein in real estate costs.