Flexible working cuts both ways.
Posted On Saturday, December 13, 2008 at at 3:17 PM by Tim MillsOur webmistress works hard pouring over her metrics and analysis to gain every edge she can with keywords, links, page density and relevance to do with workforce factors - that's our business. But nothing could prepare her for the spike of hits that has turned into a wave of web crawling that would normally get her a bonus for discovering some new SEO technique. The hits zeroed in one area and rapid fire followed ever since.
The reason turned out to be a simple one. Working patterns are getting hammered as realization dawns an age old relationship does exist between headcount and cash. Headcount is in the crosshairs. Karen Bartlett reminded her readers the existence of this relationship in her editorial "Flexible working: Blessing or curse?" Also there does seem to be a trend for phased working as an alternative to wholesale job cuts . The irony is, markets not legislation is driving flexible working. Not the flexible working many had in mind, but flexible working nonetheless. Flexible working is indeed a double-edged sword that cuts both ways.
