Flexibility, a Worker's Choice?

Flexibility was something that i saw come up over and over again when i was reading the literature from the 19 sixties, 19 seventies, 19 eighties. And these books were really referring to flexibility in terms of corporate flexibility as in the ability for an organization to staff up and then let go of people very quickly. That is profoundly different from the way that i was thinking about flexibility as something that benefits the employee rat. So how can we look at how corporations historically hive thought of this term, and how can we change our thinking about it moving forward?