Strategy

FlexJobs CEO Sara Sutton shares her views and insights on the Future of Work and offers recommendations on implementing flexible schedules.

Working parents are not okay. Leaders need to take bold and innovative actions to keep parents in the workforce. 

“Today, we’ve got the greatest opportunity that we are going to have for decades to snag a boatload — not a busload, but a boatload — of great people.”

Now is the opportunity for leaders to take actions that will transform the workplace and the organization to support working parents and create a culture that will accelerate, rather than [...]

The “water cooler effect” helps create and foster social bonds, drive innovation, align on truths, and even helps the bottom line. As humans, our need for social connection is innate. [...]

“By leveraging this moment to explore, experiment, and learn, organizations and their community stakeholders have a unique opportunity to redefine the scope of their priorities and collective actions."

To create an unstoppable, energized team and enterprise—you can’t just tell the rest of the organization what to do. Instead, leaders are clear with the organization about what success looks [...]

In a “normal” environment, agile strategy gives the organization a competitive edge. In an environment that forces agility, such as the one we are in, the strategy (and the organization) becomes [...]