This sort of flexibility can be important for some employees.
Unfortunately, Mr Brown does not have that sort of flexibility.
But it is not the sort of flexibility that induces gleeful dancing on the 7 train.
"A distributed grid with a high penetration of renewable energy needs some sort of flexibility," Saadeh points out.
NME recently introduced best Twitter and best fan community, which might seem a bit silly but this sort of flexibility is, perhaps, key to continued success.
The call centres claim that although the money is not great, shift-working offers the sort of flexibility that students and single mothers need.
Directors with that sort of flexibility can often be, or become, hacks, and Wellman, at times, had a touch of the hack in him.
He said the fines were absurd, and at best they created rote, reflex responses and not the sort of flexibility and self-motivation needed in a modern economy.
Big, well-managed companies tend to offer that sort of flexibility; others will have to learn.Make work not warLastly, older workers need to adapt.
That sort of flexibility has so far helped independent restaurants avoid the problems of full-service chains, some of which have gone bankrupt and most of which have seen sales fall.
But he says of his new employer: "We'll never have the incredible resources of the BBC, but we do have a sort of flexibility [and] simply being smaller brings an advantage".
