Why A Flexible Worker Is A Happy And Productive Worker - Forbes15 Jan 2016 ... In my last post, I wrote about the pernicious impact of a long-hours culture on both individual and collective performances, so I thought I'd spend a bit of time in this post talking about the benefits of flexible working. There has been a long list of studies trumpeting the virtues of flexible working, with one of the first revealing that flexible workers were generally a whole lot more productive than their 9-to-5 peers. Over a nine month period they found that flexible workers:.