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Flexibility Consultation for Businesses

Flexibility Consultation promotes new impulses in personnel management for both businesses and workers.


The goal of free consultation is for businesses to be supported on a flexible job market through meaningful interventions during capacity fluctuations, and to secure the employment of workers through qualification and work models, as well as other supporting measures. Consultations will be guided by consulting agencies contracted by the AMS, and are financed by the AMS (Austrian Job Market Service) and the European Social Fund (ESF). (Valid since September 2005.)

Flexibility consultation for businesses is based predominately for middle-sized to larger businesses with more than 50 employees, and whose operational development is shaped by phases in capacity fluctuations, search processes or redundancy. In compliance to the requirements of the (regional) job market and adjusted to the interests of enterprises and employees, the following consulting service topics are financed:
  • Adjustment to organisational structures
  • Adjustment to qualifications portfolios
  • Stabilization of inter— and outer-plant mobility of employees
  • Making work schedules flexible
  • The use of flexible workforces
  • Diversity management
The maximum duration of the consultation amounts to:

Initial Conference: 1 consulting day
For the development of a flexible strategy: 5 consulting days
For the execution of flexibility consultation: 8 consulting days and/or 9 consulting days in the case of additional consultation required regarding supplementing in-plant promotion measures for women.

All consulting costs are paid for by the AMS (Austrian Job Market Servicfe) and the ESF.

If your business is in Vorarlberg, you can ask for more information by calling 05572 - 52800 or by email: michael.peter@merlin-ub.at.

Businesses located in other states, please ask at your regional branch of the AMS ( Austrian Job Market Service).