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flexplace n. A company policy that enables employees to work either at the office or from home. Also: flex-place, flexiplace.

Example Citations:
Employees who take part in a flexplace arrangement work at home or at an alternate work site during part of their scheduled hours. Managers are finding that offering a flexplace option is not just an employee perk, but that it has numerous advantages in terms of productivity, morale and cost containment.
—Barney Olmsted and Suzanne Smith, Managing in a Flexible Workplace, AMACOM Books, April, 1997

California's archaic overtime rules are making it difficult for employees to respond to today's families who want and need alternative work schedules, such as flextime, flexplace, telecommuting, job-sharing, part-time, and compressed workweeks to balance family and work demands.
—William Campbell, "Flexible work times help families, businesses," Orange County Register (California), February 21, 1996

Earliest Citation:
"What are the three biggest issues in the work place today? Flexible benefits, flex-time and flex-place [working at home]," says Dana E. Friedman of New York's Conference Board, a research group funded by the nation's major corporations.
—Sandra G. Boodman, "The New Baby Boom," The Washington Post, August 27, 1984

Notes:
Flexplace is the spatial analog to flextime (1972).

Related Words:
corporate concierge
flexicurity
hot desk
hotelling
modem cowboy/cowgirl
office
office-free
placemaking
soft benefits
telework
teleworkaholic syndrome
touchdown center
virtual manager

Subject Category:
Business - Corporate Culture

Posted on April 20, 1997 at 11:07 PM


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