The traditional desk and meeting room are not optimised for all the different kinds of work undertaken in the modern office. Having ‘activity based work settings’ means having a range of alternati [..]

Broadband communications are essential for effective flexible working out of the office. There is no accepted definition for broadband – it’s a general term for data transmission rates over tele [..]

A career break or sabbatical is a period of extended time away from work (usually unpaid) to pursue professional or personal development, while being able to return to one’s post at the end of the [..]

Dematerialisation describes transformation of processes and products that used to be physical into a fully electronic format. Replacing paper processes with online ones is one form of dematerialisa [..]

‘e-lancing’ is a term coined to describe teleworking freelancers, who gain or perform most of their contracts online. The term has a kind of 1990s feel about it, when the online world was a wonder t [..]

Family-friendliness is about achieving the reconciliation of work and family life, mainly through flexible working practices, though it may also include benefits such as workplace crèches, childcare [..]

A variation on the home office is to have an office in the garden, preferably in an outbuilding specifically designed to be a good working environment.  A garden office has all the advantages of a [..]

A home office is an office at home. It best describes a separate room set up specifically for home-based working.  Homeshoring Homeshoring is a term recently coined with reference to ‘offshoring’ [..]

Abbreviation for ‘information and communication technologies’.  Sometimes referred to as ITC or IT & C. Whichever way, they are essential for flexible/smart working. The term signals the dynami [..]

Ki work is a new term that attracted a great deal of media attention initially. It essentially describes homeshoring and virtual company techniques for creating an agile organisation. I’ve included [..]