Shrinking the Workspace

Abstract

The previous three chapters have portrayed a new portfolio of policies across many workplaces, with external flexibility balanced by a more intelligent kind of internal flexibility and complemented by a reassertion of careers and development. Despite a number of question-marks which still hover around, the picture is one which many will find broadly encouraging or reassuring, in its promise of reconciling flexibility with continuity at the workplace. We now turn to another aspect of working life where new management approaches seem urgent, and consider the progress of innovation. This too turns out to have some connections with issues of flexibility.