Examining the tensions in workplace flexibility and exploring options for new directions.

Putnam, Linda L; Myers, Karen K; Gailliard, Bernadette M

doi:10.1177/0018726713495704

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Examining the tensions in workplace flexibility and exploring options for new directions.

Putnam, Linda L, Myers, Karen K, Gailliard, Bernadette M·2014·Human Relations

DOI 10.1177/0018726713495704

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Workplace flexibility initiatives as a potential remedy for work–life conflicts are the focus of a considerable number of investigations. Despite their contributions, research findings reveal tensions and contradictions in the ways that employees, managers and organizations develop, enact and respond to these flexibility initiatives. This critical review identifies three primary tensions (variable vs fixed arrangements, supportive vs unsupportive work climates and equitable vs inequitable implementation of policies) that reveal inconsistent and sometimes contradictory findings. We tie these tensions, and the management of them, to an overarching dilemma in implementing workplace flexibility, the autonomy–control paradox. To develop alternatives for handling these tensions, we recommend reframing them through changing organizational cultures, adopting a philosophy of adaptability, customizing work and making workplace flexibility an employee right. We conclude by urging organizations and society to reframe the tensions between work and life, to treat them as enriching rather than competing with each other and to transcend these opposite poles through exploring third spaces.

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Authors: Putnam, L. L., Myers, K. K., & Gailliard, B. M.
Affiliations: University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
Corresponding author: Putnam, Linda L
Myers, Karen K
Gailliard, Bernadette M
ORCID: Putnam, Linda L
Myers, Karen K
Venue: Human Relations
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2013-10-08
Volume: 67
Issue: 4
Pages: 413-440
ISSN: 0018-7267 (ISSN-L)
1741-282X
DOI: 10.1177/0018726713495704
OpenAlex: W2131299909
Cited by: 341
References: 128
Citations by year: 2026: 28 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 35 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 24 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 2
FWCI: 42.18
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Human Relations (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Work-Family Balance Challenges
Social Sciences › Safety Research › Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Employee Performance and Management
Keywords: work flexibility, work-life balance, work-life conflict, organizational culture, adaptability, workers' rights, third space, work-life tensions

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