To not have a flexible job would cost them time, productivity and money.
But some employers' groups, such as the Forum of Private Business, suggest the new rules will make the labour market less flexible, and job creation and recruitment will suffer.
Carrie's job is flexible enough to fit around the interruptions that motherhood brings.
Similarly, workers could simply choose a job with more flexible hours and less pay.
Thirty-six percent of working dads say their company does not offer flexible work arrangements such as flexible schedules, telecommuting, job sharing and more.
But job cuts and flexible working will not be enough to safeguard the future of Longbridge, which employs 14, 000 and makes a selection of ageing models.
Many of you here represent companies and workplaces that are already doing just that -- embracing telecommuting, flextime, compressed work weeks, job sharing, flexible start and end times, and helping your employees generally find quality childcare and eldercare.
But a job could also be considered flexible if it offers the ability to switch roles and responsibilities within a company (as with rotating job titles), if it offers options for job-sharing, or if meetings and company events are not considered mandatory to attend, among other things.
You get tremendous job security, a flexible schedule, intellectually stimulating work and decent pay.
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Unison said it wanted to negotiate job sharing and more flexible contracts.
He told the Times that the way that unions had worked with management to back pay cuts and flexible working as an alternative to job losses was a "miracle".
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It is hard to see how the 11.3% of the German workforce who are out of work, measured by the latest unadjusted figures, benefit from trade-union opposition to the idea of more flexible working patterns and less rigid job protection.
His advice for jobseekers is to be flexible about your location, salary and job, and to tailor your application.
Proposals to give parents the right to request flexible working, such as fewer hours and job sharing, throughout their working lives also appear to have been dropped.
It recently gave the workforce at Land Rover's Solihull plant an ultimatum: adopt modern, flexible working practices and give up old habits such as eating and smoking on the job, or the factory closes.
Both of these jobs are considered highly flexible by Payscale, because of the percentage of workers who said they can do their job from home.
FlexJobs, a job service specializing in the telecommuting, freelance, part-time, and flexible schedule niches, has polled over 20, 000 employers in the past three years - from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
"They don't care when or where their employees get the job done, as long as they get the results, " says Thomson, adding that studies show flexible hours usually increase both innovation and productivity.
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