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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 a country affected by the economic slowdown in 2008 / 2009. The impact caused the organization adopted flexible in working with the increase of working part-time.Employment job and use of video-conferencing as an alternative conference, to reduce the cost of the trip. The management of all this is the result of the reduction of 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." was
the use of "flexible work practices", namely the increased. Use of part-time work a reduction, in
hours worked by full-timers the use, of purchased leave and video-conferencing, as. An alternative, to
travelAll to manage the downturn in the volume of work and revenue. It was unexpected both
because 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, More
particularly."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. Flexible
.Work practices were not seen as a strategic business initiative with multiple, elements and relevant, to
a 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 in
relation to, part-time work leave-taking and average hours. Namely between August 2008 and
.August 2009 part-time hours increased significantly for both men and women (by 5 299 400 (,, 7.99
per cent) and 3 770 300 hours,,, (2.39 per cent) respectively4
) and the proportion of full-time
employees working below 35 hours per week during the period. September 2008 to May 2009 (which
included the Australian summer holiday period), for reasons such as, leave taking grew. By 3 ce3nt.5 per
.In addition during this, period "aggregate monthly hours fell 2.8, per cent the equivalent of roughly
270 000 effective,, Full-time jobs. "Suggesting that the length of the work week declined even for, those
working full-time6.
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