Companies need to reward these in new ways: after all, if they want their workers to be flexible, there is no point in setting narrow targets.
The employment landscape is shifting and it does point to a more flexible workforce, that is, contractors, versus full time employees.
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By taking a long-run point of view that is flexible to the needs of both the employer and the employees, unions could become more prominent in the workplace.
Co-inventor Wayne Westerman said the MultiTouch system was much more flexible than a mouse which had a single moving point as its main method of input.
As Mr Rumsfeld likes to point out, military strategies are supposed to be flexible and contain contingencies to deal with unexpected events.
Peruvemba expects flexible plastic displays to get larger in coming years, to the point that they can be used in e-book readers and laptop computers.
One study found that two-thirds of American women had at some point switched from full-time work to part-time or flexible time to balance work and family.
As long as an NFL team continues to play only one game per year in London, these new, more flexible allocation rules will prevent the resulting tax burden from becoming a major sticking point among the participating players.
That diversified and flexible approach is at the core of the Oracle Cloud and will be a major point of discussion during our ongoing Oracle CloudWorld event series.
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The times I feel most disheartened are the moments when facts are transformed into a flexible collection of data to be customized for arguments and are designed solely to make a point.
Here, the Tories can point to an impressive record of reform, ranging from privatisation to the promotion of flexible labour markets.
"He was making a very fair point, which most people recognise, about how it's important to have flexible labour markets and that people are encouraged to be active in looking for work, " the spokesman said.
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Conversely, it has under-invested in buses (a cheaper and more flexible way to serve a city where people must travel along many different routes), to the point where it has been forced by a civil-rights lawsuit to do a better job of running them.
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