flexecutiven.
/flɛɡˈzɛkjᵿtɪv/, U.S. /flɛɡˈzɛkjədɪv/ Originally U.S.
A professional whose use of information technology offers flexible employment opportunities; a telecommuter. Also: a person, frequently a freelancer, who holds a variety of jobs, either simultaneously or successively.
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1994 San Francisco Examiner 23 Oct. e1/2 The pundits call them ‘flexecutives’ because, with the widespread use of faxes and computers in the '80s, they are flexible enough to live where they choose and remain hooked into the economic mainstream.
1995 Village Voice Lit. Suppl. (Nexis) 10 Oct. 10 The Panglossian declarations of Third Wave theorists, who promise the empowerment as we all become telecommuting ‘flexecutives’ with virtual offices, a ‘new class of migratory brain workers’ with unchecked total quality entrepreneurial gusto.
1999 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Mar. (Media section) 6 Soon we will see how the yuppies have developed into Flexecutives or Flexis—a free-flowing, leisure-seeking, ecstasy and X-generation in the information age.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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