Open AccessDeveloping the flexible library and information workforce.
Author(s) -
Anne Goulding,
Evelyn Kerslake
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
library and information research/library and information research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2752-7336
pISSN - 1756-1086
DOI - 10.29173/lirg406
Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , workforce , business , happening , labour economics , marketing , industrial organization , public relations , computer science , management , economics , political science , economic growth , art , performance art , art history
Flexibility is a vaguely defined media buzzword connoting the progressive, forward-looking workplace. Employers report that increased labour market flexibility has made them more cost-effective, efficient, better able to deal with customer and employee demands and the implementation of new technology. But what is happening to those workers who make up the flexible workforce? For a while in the 1980s it seemed that flexibility could do no wrong; now, however, the shortcomings of flexible labour markets are becoming
more apparent.