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Juan, I also want to add per point #6 that studies and anecdotal evidence show that more Millennials view work autonomy as a non-negotiable job criteria. Moreover, Millennial workers are in high demand and will soon comprise the majority of the global workforce compared to other age groups, especially as Baby Boomers and GenXers increasingly retire. I also assume that Gen Z -- the younger cohort of Millennials -- will also demand flexible work options as a prerequisite for considering any job offer. Although most members of Gen Z are still in high school, the oldest members of this demographic are starting to graduate college and embark on their first professional jobs. Therefore, flex work is a major incentive to them as well.
Thus, it's important for employers to recognize why flex work makes good business sense from the standpoint of recruiting, hiring and retaining the best available talent, particularly among a new generation of young people. Employers who ignore flex work options do so at their peril, as talented applicants will be hired by the competition. On the employee side, it's critically important to remember that with increased work autonomy comes increased accountability and trust by management.
Thanks again, Juan, for a terrific and timely read. FYI - here's another buzz I wrote about an emerging flex work management model: Results-Only Work Environments (ROWE) https://www.bebee.com/producer/@dbgrinberg/new-work-paradigm-for-millennials-gen-z-is-results-only

Kudos, Juan, on another brilliant buzz full of important insights and astute advice. I've been a long-time proponent of work flexibility because, put simply, it just makes good business sense in today's fast-evolving mobile, digital and virtual high-tech workplace.
Thus, I hope employers take note of the business benefits you point out of allowing flexible work options for employees -- which, as you note above, increases engagement, productivity, morale, job satisfaction, and company loyalty (among other things).
FYI, here's my buzz from June 2016 on the Top 10 reasons why telework makes good business sense https://www.bebee.com/producer/@dbgrinberg/top-10-reasons-why-telework-makes-good-business-sense-in-the-digital-age

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Quite frankly this is at the heart of why most people, including myself, would chose to work for a start-up. After having run a company that operated for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, I wanted a job that afforded me the time-space to be creative in way that was better for me. A traditional CEO role at a traditional company would simply have me in the same grind I left when I sold my business. beBee offices are in a Wework in New York which is filed with start ups. The flexibility of work hours can be seen on the faces of people walking around there. They are happy, they socialize more and just seem way more creative. This is a great post, sharing... @John White, MBA @Virag Gulyas

nice share @Juan Imaz! enjoyed read and shared. thank you for such enriching post.

thank you, start-ups will be grateful for this post!

king bee post!

Thanks @Juan Imaz for this article. Start up companies that implement these steps will be able to read and adapt to changes quicker than those sticking steadfastly to their old failing structure.

I am glad that this buzz leads with the word "Workers' and not "Employees". Workers should denote those people who do the work. That is not necessarily true with the word "employees" when it means being employed under someone else's dime. Employees are pampered in large organizations but workers still do the work.

The next key word is agile. Agile works when the workers an organization hires are really good, they know how to do the job and the organization has headhunted the best of the best - so why then would an organization stand in their way and create rules that impeded and get in the way of their job. If you hire the best, let them work and here flexible hours are intelligent hours. It is a win-win - a worker that wants to work and wants to flourish using abilities and gaining new abilities.

The reason organizations with bloated HR need to create policies is because not all organizations can command the best minds, so an organization hires B-Players or what Steve Jobs called BOZO LEADERSHIP and the whole organization is then either dumbed down or policy driven because the policy is to protect the organization from bad workers. This is when comedies like Office Place find their material for "TPS Reports" and having these "Lumbergs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy3rjQGc6lA In this case flexible work is a crazy idea - to give people who are experts at playing the game, the opportunity to game flexible time - not good.

Bottom dollar, hire really good people, get out of the way unless they ask for development and then work on a win-win basis, but hire a good person and throw them into an "employee culture" and expect the good person to be the one who is burned. So if your organization needs to downsize, do not call me - I have become very tired watching over decades, this kind of BS. Flexible work is not BS but it needs to stay clear of BS in order to create a win-win scenario.

Thank you @Juan Imaz for sharing your excellent approach to enlight the flexibilty's prism. I like very much the idea like compensating differentials to steer the work efficiency needs, targeted. That can be an entire package of well-being in corporate life, to reduce the paradox of the risk intermingling between work and family life, if strict boundaries can be set and shared both sides.

Flexibility is certainly one of the rising values, Thanks @Juan Imaz

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Congrats Matt - to you and to your kid! Good luck!

Congratulations to your daughter @Matt 🐝 Sweetwood. But, equally you deserve accolades for upbringing your daughter and being more like a mentor. That's double jubilation! :)

@Matt 🐝 Sweetwood Congratulations Matt - have never seen you look so proud in a photo!

#23 I had the privilege of having 5 lumps! Buzz On!

#20 David, thank you for your kind words!

She is already her own brand. Who and what she is is the total package. To "rebrand" her based on prerogatives of the day will turn her into a phony - a "not her". We parents have done our best. By the time they graduate it's time for us to to "let go", step back and say no more. It's their row to hoe - not that of our expectations and hopes - and need to keep them dependent. . .

@Matt 🐝 Sweetwood Aint it cool when they bring a lump to your throat. Me I wept, much to both daughters horror. Congratulations to her even though she has just been fired from daddy payroll !!

Congratulations @Matt 🐝 Sweetwood .

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many congratulations to daughter and yes also to the father!!!

Kudos to your daughter, Matt. If she's anything like you then she has a bright and boundless career ahead of her. Also, congrats to all the new grads out there who represent a new generation of leadership in today's fast evolving high-tech Information Age.

Congratulations...

The effort over years they momentarily cherished,

But achievement of theirs will be forever nourished.

Congratulations @Matt 🐝 Sweetwood. I feel your daughter will do just fine because of you setting a good example.

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Enjoy the moment ! Sometimes i belive you are way better than Mr Wonderful...lol, way more handsome! So how does it feel to bebee a great Dad ?

Congratulations👏👏👏👏👏

Congratulations @Matt 🐝 Sweetwood. Mine just finish Kindergarten and 1st grade. The journey is just beginning. I think I may use your resources in few years. But, let me share them for other parents with graduating students.

Congratulations ! Mine graduated as well. Now the career!

Congrats Matt!!

Congrats.

Congrats to the new diploma holder and the dad at her side! Now comes the hard part. Building a personal as well as a professional brand is critical in today's world. Help her understand the differences and how to use each platform with an eye on the future. It is okay to be odds with the general view but you have to be prepared to stick by your contrarian posts.

#5 Thank you Mercedes.

#3 @IanWeinberg Thank you so much for these articles and videos. They supply additional context for all that I have been thinking about.

#2 Thank you Gert. I appreciate you passing the article along.

#1 Thank you Jerry.

Congratulations

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Thanks for the tag @Gert Scholtz This is an interesting angle Sue, regarding the management of resourceful versus destructive emotions. I've learned that it's difficult to superimpose different models/applications or do a cross-walk with common themes. Every approach has it's own merits, as does this one. Out of interest I would offer these previous posts of mine - https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ian-weinberg/meditation-re-visited and https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ian-weinberg/buzzing-with-emotion coming from a different space.

@Sue Bryan This is a very interesting and thoughtful post on mental and emotional functioning - Thank you Sue. I am tagging @Ian Weinberg who I think will be interested in reading your work.

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