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September 15, 2008
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Bill Ferris says the acronym FWA hasn't yet worked its way into the mainstream at most companies or business-related organizations, but it's probably only a matter of time before it does.
It stands for 'flexible work arrangement,' said Ferris, a professor of Management at Western New England College who has studied the subject extensively, and as that name suggests, it connotes work schedules or conditions that are, well, flexible, as opposed to inflexible, which is the word that ruled in corporate America for decades. It's a term that now covers everything from telecommuting to variable scheduling to compressed workweeks, he explained, and although it is hardly a recent phenomenon - ...
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