When the conversation shifts to workplace flexibility, Burkett loses her "let's be reasonable" tone.

As such, "workplace flexibility" encompasses a variety of arrangements that allow workers to continue making productive contributions to the workforce while also attending to family and other responsibilities.

Specifically, the Council is taking up the issue of workplace flexibility with a conference later in the week and by helping to integrate more flexible policies into the agencies.

To support this idea, the authors collect evidence showing a concurrent increase in value to companies of female management and increase in priority to women of workplace flexibility.

Trends toward increased automation and workplace flexibility have changed the operating environment.

Mr. Hund is one of countless Germans caught up in a much broader political battle over job protection and workplace flexibility.

Principally, the authors believe, employment legislation works against workplace flexibility, probably the single most critical component of competitiveness in the evolving global marketplace.

Outside of France, the Netherlands has drawn widespread attention in recent years as a model for promoting workplace flexibility, including the expansion of part-time employment.

To the Editor: Women have long been outspoken about wanting the workplace flexibility to more spend time at their children's activities or at other personal pursuits.

The undisputed leader is the Netherlands, which has attracted enormous attention in recent years as a possible model for promoting workplace flexibility in the rest of Europe.