For almost twenty years, Germany's Federal Office of Administration (Bundesverwaltungsamt), a public institution under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior, which provides a range of internal and external services and employs 4,800 people at 7 sites, has been a trailblazer in flexible working time. The Office presented an assessment of its "FAZIT" (Flexibile Working Time in the Team) scheme, which has the highest employee satisfaction rate, now at 98%.

Enabling everyone to work in Canada's public service is the clearly stated objective of the federal government. A five-point strategy has been introduced to create conditions for identifying, preventing and removing barriers to the participation of individuals with disabilities. This follows extensive consultation by the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS), which then resubmitted its proposals before finalising them.

Compulsory pre-mediation is being tested in 42 management centres (centres de gestion) with good results. The idea is to instill a communication process to resolve disagreements concerning individual administrative decisions made by the employer. After a year-long test phase, the system appears to be particularly relevant in the view of mediators, since it gradually introduces a culture of shared solution-finding.