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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.


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    Here’s what jobsworths, clockwatchers and rulebreakers need to do in 2023

    by Adam McCulloch 30 Dec 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 30 Dec 2022

    Henley School of Business has produced a list of New Year resolutions to help the jobsworths, clockwatchers and rule-breakers to collude in their own demise.

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • Global mobility

    Demand for guidance on hybrid and overseas working tax implications

    by Ashleigh Webber 22 Dec 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 22 Dec 2022

    There is a need for the government to align its tax policy with modern working practices including hybrid and overseas working, a call for evidence has found.

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    2022 in review: Personnel Today editor Rob Moss talks to Oven-Ready HR

    by Chris Taylor 22 Dec 2022
    by Chris Taylor 22 Dec 2022

    As we reach the end of 2022, Rob Moss, editor of Personnel Today, joins Oven Ready HR podcast host Chris Taylor to give his HR review of the year.

    • Hybrid working
    • Employee engagement
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Workers seek virtual worlds for collaboration, says Meta

    by Jo Faragher 12 Dec 2022
    by Jo Faragher 12 Dec 2022

    UK employees feel that current work set-ups stifle togetherness, according to Meta.

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    How M&S is improving work-life balance for retail managers

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Dec 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Dec 2022

    M&S has launched Worklife, a new flexible working programme where retail managers can work a four-day week or nine-day fortnight.

    • Hybrid working
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    James Dyson lambasts new flexible working right

    by Adam McCulloch 9 Dec 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 9 Dec 2022

    Inventor and businessman James Dyson highly critical of right to request flexible working policy.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Disability

    Why new flexible working rights will guarantee workers nothing

    by Molly Johnson-Jones 9 Dec 2022
    by Molly Johnson-Jones 9 Dec 2022

    A flexible working advocate believes the proposed day one right to a flexible working request will not change company cultures.

    • Hybrid working
    • Offices
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    Flexible office space: reduce rents not heads

    by Lucinda Pullinger 9 Dec 2022
    by Lucinda Pullinger 9 Dec 2022

    As cost cutting becomes more likely, Lucinda Pullinger discusses the opportunity that flexible office space provides to business.

    • Hybrid working
    • Employee engagement
    • Latest News

    HR insights: Cost of living crisis and hybrid working (webinar)

    by Brightmine 7 Dec 2022
    by Brightmine 7 Dec 2022

    HR anticipates that 2023 will be another challenging year as it plays a key role in protecting the business in...

    • Agency workers
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    • Labour market

    Day-one flexible working right ‘words on a page’ without enforcement

    by Rob Moss 6 Dec 2022
    by Rob Moss 6 Dec 2022

    Chair of BEIS committee says new laws on flexible working will only matter if there is effective enforcement.

    • Latest News
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    • Flexible working

    Day one right to request flexible working confirmed

    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Dec 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Dec 2022

    The government says it will take forward plans to make requests for flexible working a day-one right for employees.

    • Hybrid working
    • Civil Service
    • Local authorities

    Welsh government criticised over low office occupancy

    by Adam McCulloch 2 Dec 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 2 Dec 2022

    The Welsh government has been criticised over its hybrid working policy as it has been reported that only one in 10 staff are working in the office every day.

    • Hybrid working
    • Europe
    • Latest News

    Remote working: Worthing is the ‘Zoom town’ of Europe

    by Adam McCulloch 1 Dec 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 1 Dec 2022

    Recruitment platform Indeed, working with Zoom, has identified places across the UK, France and Germany that have seen the most significant growth in remote and hybrid job opportunities.

    • Hybrid working
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    • Sickness absence

    How HR manages absence and hybrid working (survey)

    by Personnel Today 23 Nov 2022
    by Personnel Today 23 Nov 2022

    Take part in our survey on remote working and short-term sickness absence for your chance to win £100 in Amazon vouchers.

    • NHS
    • Latest News
    • Flexible working

    NHS menopause guidance recommends flexible working

    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Nov 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Nov 2022

    New NHS menopause guidance suggests that managers should consider flexible working for employees who struggle with menopause symptoms.

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