Flexplace

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A company policy or program that enables employees to have more decision authority on where they will work regardless of time of day. For example, they may choose to work in the office or from home or from a client's office or even a café. Also: flex-place, FlexPlace, flexiplace. Is the workplace equivalent of the workforce policy of Flextime and Flexbenefits. See wordspy for usage and genesis.

When this policy is implemented, it is usually accompanied with facilities management policies or practices that make use of unassigned seating. See Hotelling.

FlexPlace has been used in many companies as a name to describe a program more so than a mere policy. It is also used as a way to identify the hotelling services as independent services. Orange Business Services in 2006 won the Corenet award for innovation for their implementation of hotelling using the service name FlexPlace. In this implementation, it represented a service, rather than a policy.