Flexibility Outpacing Time Off, Pay in Valued Benefits

Employees increasingly expect to have flexible work benefits, and some may be willing to sacrifice time off or even pay to get that flexibility.

Flexible work opportunities have become a benefit that is essential to job seekers, Jonathan Wasserstrum, chief executive officer and co-founder of commercial real estate company SquareFoot, told Bloomberg BNA Feb 8.

The main catalyst for flexibility’s importance is technology; communications tools—from AOL’s instant messenger to Skype—“have changed the way that people think about the work that they do,” Isaac Oates, founder and CEO of HR software provider Justworks, told Bloomberg BNA Feb. 8.

SqaureFoot and Justworks ...