Publications and Toolkits

Tips and Tools for Managers (2010):  To access an individual worksheet, please click one of the worksheet links below. 

Worksheet: Tips For Creating A Flexible Work Environment: Tips on how to make a flexible work environment work.

These are the recommendations submitted by Corporate Voices to the Senate Staff Working Group on Workplace Flexibility in June 2009.

This study examines the benefits of workplace flexibility for hourly workers and employers. The data for this comprehensive report highlights best practices for implementing innovative flexibility programs. Innovative Workplace Flexibility Options for Hourly Workers was researched and written by WFD Consulting and was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Exectutive Summary of the comprehensive Corporate Voices study on workplace flexibility options for hourly workers.

The goal of this research was to gain insight into the views of senior-level executives regarding why flexible work strategies are used and what kind of an effect they can have on companies’ productivity. This is the executive summary only.

Research shows that, for a variety of reasons, lower wage workers generally have less access to voluntary flexibility than higher wage workers. But when it is available to them, flexibility can have equal or even more powerful outcomes for the lower wage population.

These principles outline why a well-implemented flexibility program makes sense for the business community.

Six top executives sign Corporate Voices’ support statement stating they are believe in business flexibility as a management tool and will continue to provide leadership in communicating its benefits.

The large body of business data summarized in this report demonstrates that the business case to expand workplace flexibility is substantial and compelling. Drawing on internal organizational research and information provided by 29 American firms, this report presents for the first time the weight of evidence companies themselves have collected about the positive business impacts of flexibility.