Flexible working
All employees with 26 weeks' service have the right to request a change to their hours, timing or location of work. Flexible working can improve productivity but it brings with it various issues for employers. Here we highlight our latest flexible working content, including guidance on how to handle flexible working requests, and other content on working from home, changing working hours, and the risk of discrimination claims.
Working at home has led to longer hours
Loss of creative collaboration and working for an extra week a month among findings from pandemic studies of working at home.
Thousands of BP staff may switch to remote working permanently
BP is planning to shift almost 50,000 of its employees to remote working as it reviews its office portfolio and...
More support for carers needed to keep staff in work
Research by Carers UK has shown that employers are seeing the health, wellbeing and productivity of their workforces adversely impacted...
TUC issues heat warning for workers at home and in the office
High temperatures pose questions of home-working as staff swelter without air conditioning or water coolers and the TUC asks employers for 'flexibility'.
Two-thirds continued to work while on furlough
Researchers found that men were significantly more likely than women to work while on furlough.
UK lags behind Europe on returning to office
France, Italy, Spain and Germany well ahead of UK when it comes to returning to the office.
Return to workplace still urged despite growth in infections
Employers are encouraged to bring workers back to workplaces if it is safe to do so, even though the government...
Is it really the end of the office?
Employees’ desire to continue working from home has prompted many firms to consider whether the office is truly necessary. But,...
Out of sight: how to manage remote teams
Managing people remotely for any length of time puts the onus on leaders to learn a new set of tools.
Supporting neurodivergent staff in the post-lockdown workplace
Matthew Trerise and Angela Armstrong discuss the challenges neurodivergent people may experience when returning to the workplace post-lockdown, with practical...
NHS to focus on flexible working and staff wellbeing
Flexible working, education and health and wellbeing are at the forefront of the new NHS People Plan, which the government...
Coronavirus and travel: seven questions about quarantine
On Saturday, the government announced that anyone returning from Spain, including the Balearics and Canaries, must self-isolate on their return...
Spanish holidays: how should employers handle staff quarantine?
Employers should prepare policies that outline how they will handle employees who are forced to quarantine after travelling abroad.
Workers least able to work from home are mostly men
Men are more likely to be among those workers least able to work from home, while higher-paid employees are more...
RBS Group staff to work from home until 2021
Some 49,000 staff at RBS Group have been told to continue working from home until at least 2021.
The banking...
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