Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Designing our healthier future lives: Bridging science and policy for flexible work: the pervasion of 'cog in the wheel' workplaces across time -- 2 A flexible working future -- the opportunities and challenges -- Part II The impact of flexible working on health and productivity -- 3 Employees' psychological health and the impact of flexible working arrangements.

11 Control over working time -- a twenty-first- century issue -- Part IV Flexible working for particular groups of workers -- 12 Supporting employees with invisible disabilities via flexible work -- 13 Workers with disabilities: the role of flexible employment schemes -- 14 Lone parents and blended families: advocating flexible working to support families in transition -- 15 Employee FWA needs and employer provisions across diverse age groups -- 16 Flexible working for older workers -- Index.

4 Workplace flexibility increases productivity throughout presenteeism: a conceptual framework -- 5 Flexible working and quality of life: compatible? -- Part III What makes flexible working work? -- 6 Leadership in flexible work systems -- 7 Line managers and flexible working -- 8 The balanced communications diet for business: principles for working smarter, not harder in a connected world -- 9 The impact of the commute on our mental health and physical health within the context of flexible and non-flexible working -- 10 Flexible working and skill-biased inequality: causes and consequences.

Flexible Work: Designing Our Healthier Future Lives examines flexible working through the lens of social science, in particular using psychological perspective to address not onlywhat forms of flexible working there are and how they are evolving but also their prospect in the future of work. Bringing together views from thought-leaders and underpinned byresearch evidence,this book addresses two of the most fundamental business challenges for large and medium organisations - mental health and productivity - calling for the bridging of science and policy to design flexible working for our future healthier lives. Growing from these foundations, this book explains the latest landscape in flexible working, looking at employee psychological health and productivity, including showing up for work sick.Perspectives are provided from around the worldon leadership, line management, over attachment' with technology, commuting, skill-based inequality and control over working time. Readers are offered insights into the relevance of flexible working for a diverse workforce - invisible disabilities, disabilities, older workers and blended families. Throughout, the book offers suggestions for shaping future policy, practice and research. Each chapter concludes with recommendations, making this essential reading for students, academics,human resourcepractitioners, policy-influencers, policymakers and professionals interested in flexible work.