Modern workplaces are following a strong trend of increasing flexible working practices and approaches, offering more flexibility in working times, working places, work organization, and work relations as the result of new information and communication technologies. This book brings together a group of internationally recognized experts in the field of flexible work to examine the psychological and social implications of these practices, describing the current state of research and empirically-based practices in this field. It focuses on organizational, job, and individual factors related to the quality of working life, and identifies potential risk groups where the benefits of flexible work are suppressed or not realized.Ideal for organizations implementing or considering implementing flexible work, for professionals and researchers in work and organizational psychology, and for HR professionals, this volume is an invaluable overview of rapidly changing work norms and their impact on working life.

Modern workplaces are following a strong trend of increasing flexible working practices and approaches, offering more flexibility in working times, working places, work organization, and work relations as the result of new information and communication technologies. This book brings together a group of internationally recognized experts in the field of flexible work to examine the psychological and social implications of these practices, describing the current state of research and empirically-based practices in this field. It focuses on organizational, job, and individual factors related to the quality of working life, and identifies potential risk groups where the benefits of flexible work are suppressed or not realized.

Ideal for organizations implementing or considering implementing flexible work, for professionals and researchers in work and organizational psychology, and for HR professionals, this volume is an invaluable overview of rapidly changing work norms and their impact on working life.

1. Current forms of flexible work.- 2. The development of flexible work over the last decades and its impact on the quality of working life.- 4. Flexible work in the context of work intensification and social acceleration processes.- 5. ICT as drivers and enhancers of flexible work.- 6. Important theories explaining the impact of flexible work on working life.- 7. The paradoxes about the impact of flexible work on working life.- 8. Controlling and managing the boundaries between flexible work and private life.- 9. Social norms and dynamics associated with flexible work.- 10. Flexible work and the changing quality of recovery from work.- 11. Planning and decision-making as new job demands related to flexible work.- 12. Flexible work and the opposed psychological needs for autonomy and structure.- 13. Flexible work and the importance of job security.- 14. The special case of activity-based office concepts and its impact on working life.- 15. New forms of self-employment, crowd work and its impact on the quality of life.