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In the recession in many countries experiencing a lot of unemployment Such as Spain A quarter of. the workforce is now unemployed (Gregory, Milner Windebank & 2013). Australia is one of the countries affected by the economic slowdown in the interval 2008/2009. Where the impact occurred, organizations have used the flexibility to work with the raising of working hours and a reduction in hours of work. Hiring out of work and the use of video-conferencing as an alternative to the meetings to reduce travel expenses, which handled all of this resulted from the reduction of the amount of work and income.Something unexpected happened in Australia during the 2008/2009 Global Economic Downturn(GED) which has implications for the Australian workplace of the future. This "something" wasthe use of "flexible work practices", namely the increased use of part-time work, a reduction inhours worked by full-timers, the use of purchased leave, and video-conferencing as an alternative totravel, all to manage the downturn in the volume of work and revenue. It was unexpected bothbecause the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s had been "managed" by large scale redundancies3,and because the concept of "flexible work practices" has been dominantly (and narrowly)interpreted as referring to women returning from maternity leave on a part-time basis. Moreparticularly, "flexible work practices" have been associated with an employer's accommodation of an employee's caring responsibilities, rather than an employer initiated work practice within a "win-win"framework (ie good for business and good for the employee), and have been less connected to men,or practices such as purchased leave, telecommuting and managing long hours. In essence, flexiblework practices were not seen as a strategic business initiative, with multiple elements, and relevant toa broad group of employees, including those working full-time.The size of this "something" is reflected in the 2010 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data inrelation to part-time work, leave-taking and average hours. Namely between August 2008 andAugust 2009 part-time hours increased significantly for both men and women (by 5,299,400 (7.99per cent) and 3,770,300 hours (2.39 per cent) respectively4) and the proportion of full-timeemployees working below 35 hours per week during the period September 2008 to May 2009 (whichincluded the Australian summer holiday period), for reasons such as leave taking, grew by 3 perce3nt.5 In addition, during this period "aggregate monthly hours fell 2.8 per cent, the equivalent of roughly270,000 effective full-time jobs" suggesting that the length of the work week declined, even for thoseworking full-time6
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