For many employees balancing work and personal lives can be made a whole lot easier by varying either (a) where the employee works (telecommuting) and (b) when (flex-time.”) More and more employers are seeing the advantages of these variations on the usual work place and work time, including (a) retention of valued employees, (b) lower costs of office space, and (c) increased productivity. If telecommuting or flex-time seem attractive to you, here is how to ask for it, that is, “What to Say and How to Say It.”™