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Flexible work arrangements: Balancing employee preferences with organizational needs

Higginbotham

In the 1960s, German companies, in order to scale up male-dominated industries, took the lead in drawing female homemakers into the workforce by offering “flexiwork”, which accommodated child care at home. In the 1970s, a NASA engineer, who happened to be working remotely from home, coined the term “telecommuting”.