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Collaboration at Work – Collaboration – Moving from Compliance to Collaboration

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Listen to David Chiu, President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,. Speak about the FFWO at an educational forum, November 13, 2013. San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu. Proposed the Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance. The FFWO requires that employers with 20 or more employees allow any employee who is employed in San Francisco, has been employed for six months or more by the current employer, and works at least eight hours per week on a regular basis to request a flexible or...

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Collaboration at Work – Collaboration – Moving from Compliance to Collaboration

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The skills of collaboration can be learned, and a comprehensive training. Addresses bias, inclusion, mutual respect, AND flexibility. Collaborative Scheduling thrives when managers and employees excel in a distinct interactive skill set. Some essential skills may be related to managing specific flexible schedules: managing output on part-time schedules or building knowledge transfer into a gradual approach to retirement. But the deeper skills required for developing and maintaining diverse schedu...The e...

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Collaboration at Work – Collaboration – Moving from Compliance to Collaboration

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Collaboration at Work Suite: The Tools. There are many ways to comply with the new flex legislation and its required processes some broader and more collaborative than others. There are two suites of this fuller approach provided below:. 2) The Ask4Flex.com. Provides research, advocacy and advice on redesigning the time and place of work. Collaborative, flexible scheduling is a powerful problem-solver for individuals, businesses and the community strengthening families, reducing commutes, securing ta...

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Collaboration at Work – Collaboration – Moving from Compliance to Collaboration

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Users Comment on Collaborative, Flexible Scheduling. I'm much more efficient and I don't waste as much time. My time and energy are spent on the high value work, and because of this I do five days’ worth of work in four now. And I have the extra day to myself. GM, Corporate Services. This schedule added great value to our work: it allowed development of other staff, financial gain, retention of a superb manager and great client satisfaction. Regional Manager, Corporate Services. Senior Manager, Auto.

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Collaboration at Work – Collaboration – Moving from Compliance to Collaboration

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How Does Collaborative Flexibility Work? The shift from unilateral to collaborative scheduling. For most of the last century and much of this one, people worked in factories and offices on fixed, rigid and unilateral schedules. The boss scheduled, workers complied. In 1972 Hewlett-Packard cracked the corporate mold a bit by introducing a flextime program in the United States. Frederick W. Taylor, 1911. Father of industrial scheduling. Flexibility programs are a necessary but insufficient step. FWAs have ...

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Collaboration at Work – Collaboration – Moving from Compliance to Collaboration

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Who Does Collaborative Flexibility? Throughout most of the country and much of the Bay Area, employers of all types are wrestling. With collaborative and flexible schedules, with the chronic time conflicts between their demanding. Workloads and their employees’ shifting needs. The results are diverse and address many challenges. Here is a brief, informal tour of notable forms of collaboration, from the so-called informal flexibility. Casual use of limited. Pioneer in the Valley. Hospitals and SEIU Nurses.

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Collaboration at Work – Collaboration – Moving from Compliance to Collaboration

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Collaboration@Work champions workplace flexibility as means AND end. We have helped dozens of companies with research, advocacy and consulting for workplaces promoting collaboration over habit and diversity over uniformity. For 20 years we have led in studying Bay Area and national flexibility trends, and in shaping & promoting a collaborative approach to flex. Whether you need online guidelines, training or research, we offer deeply grounded insights and tools. A powerful tool for SF’s. Provides researc...

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Collaboration at Work – Collaboration – Moving from Compliance to Collaboration

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Up Against the Clock. Bay Area Re-Sets Flex. Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer suspended telecommuting , insisting that true collaboration demanded co-location; she generated a national backlash but Silicon Valley support. Google, Apple, etc. bus employees to long hour, meet-all-needs campuses rather than let them work remotely. A leader defined Google’s telework goal: as little as possible. Time for Collaborative Flexibility. The mission of Collaboration@Work. Provides research, advocacy and advice on redesigning t...

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Collaboration at Work – Collaboration – Moving from Compliance to Collaboration

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Resources: Truths, Trends, Tools and Tips on. Flexible and Collaborative Working. Collaboration@Work generates original and compelling thought on the workplaces of tomorrow. Since 2008 these widely respected, periodic essays written. By our Director have offered unique, innovative guidance for. Champions of workplace flexibility. The perspective is global,. The insights unique and the writing widely praised. To scan the 90-issue archive or to subscribe,. The Co Scheduler is the provocative blog of. Skill...