Finally, having started with a clean sheet, Emirates has a flat management structure and the kind of flexible, highly productive workforce that carriers such as strike-torn BA and high-cost Lufthansa can only dream of.
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The result is a workforce willing to adapt to the Palio's requirement for flexible manufacturing.
Council leader Steve Houghton said the workforce needed to be more flexible.
She and the professionals profiled below represent a sample of the reconstituted American workforce: more resourceful, flexible and innovative than they were a generation ago.
One is that more women in the workforce are creating a demand for more flexible hours.
That seems to be the plan Wal-Mart Stores is undertaking as it unveils its new plan for a flexible workforce--one that will force store employees to adhere to a work schedule that bends to the demands of customer shopping habits.
The consortium said it wanted to provide an affordable pay, terms and conditions system that recognised and rewarded performance, while promoting greater productivity and creating a flexible workforce that was "fit for purpose in the modern NHS".
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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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Ms Rendu de Lint points to another reason for France's relative success: a decade-long trend towards more temporary and flexible work practices, which has encouraged women to enter the workforce.
In fact, to the extent that more education means more specialization of the U.S. workforce, it is helpful to have access to have flexible and dynamic foreign labor markets.
What we can do to help young women and women of all ages is to have a strong economy, so strong that employers are looking to find good employees and bringing them into their workforce, and adapting to a flexible work schedule that gives women the opportunities that they would otherwise not be able to afford.
Some counter that the hours gap would shrink if employers offered more family-friendly policies, such as flexible hours and easier on-off ramps for moving in and out of the workforce.
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.
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