Flexplace
Encyclopedia
Flexplace refers to 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. When this policy is implemented, it is usually accompanied with facilities management policies or practices that make use of unassigned seating such as Hotelling
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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.
Café
A café , also spelled cafe, in most countries refers to an establishment which focuses on serving coffee, like an American coffeehouse. In the United States, it may refer to an informal restaurant, offering a range of hot meals and made-to-order sandwiches...
. Also: flex-place, FlexPlace, flexiplace. Is the workplace equivalent of the workforce policy of flextime and flexbenefits. When this policy is implemented, it is usually accompanied with facilities management policies or practices that make use of unassigned seating such as Hotelling
Hotelling (office)
Hoteling is a method of supporting unassigned seating in an office environment. It is similar to hot desking, and is sometimes confused with it, since both methods support unassigned seating...
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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
Equant (France Télécom)
Orange Business Services is part of the France Télécom group. Known as Equant before June 2006, Orange Business Services is the entity within the France Télécom Group dedicated to global business telecommunications...
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.