Flexible working

Hybrid working is often hailed as important for the inclusion of disabled employees, but it is only successful if organisations challenge themselves to do better.

Managing directors must work in the office full time, JPMorgan Chase has told staff; Gartner warns against strict return to office policies.

Closing the gender pay gap requires employers to take tangible action, and use their data to make a positive difference.

Nearly half of non-office based workers (46%) consider flexibility just as, or more important than pay.

Report urges ministers to focus on initiatives to alleviate workloads and ways of mitigating the profession's lack of flexible work opportunities.

Employers are overestimating the health and wellbeing benefits of hybrid working, according to research.

The CBI will set out new principles to boost productivity and overcome UK labour market challenges.

Up to 700,000 workers may benefit from an increased holiday entitlement following the Harpur Trust v Brazel Supreme Court judgment.

Working mothers are regularly subject to 'fake' flexibiity and put in work outside normal office hours, a survey has revealed.

HR buzzwords are running amok. No sooner do we debunk and ridicule them than more nonsensical balderdash proliferates.

Govia Thameslink will trial cheaper Monday and Friday fares on Southern services as it attempts to boost post-pandemic commuting numbers.

Three-quarters of office workers in London would leave their job if they were no longer able to work from home for some of the week.

Many businesses have failed to optimise the opportunities of hybrid working and are mistakenly planning a return to the office as a result, says prominent consultancy.

A third of UK employees feel hybrid working has made it harder to create a 'community' at work, according to workplace culture research.

Personel Today and Cezanne HR research finds many employers have not updated their absence policies to reflect new working practices.