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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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    Hybrid working and tax: what employers need to know

    by Susan Ball 3 Feb 2023
    by Susan Ball 3 Feb 2023

    Tax policy has not kept up with modern working practices, including hybrid and international working. What do employers need to know?

    • Shared parental leave
    • Maternity
    • Discipline

    Top 10 HR questions January 2023: Flexible working requests

    by Brightmine 1 Feb 2023
    by Brightmine 1 Feb 2023

    The government has committed to taking forward a number of reforms to the right to request flexible working.
    Legislation to...

    • Sexual harassment
    • Europe
    • Neonatal leave

    Employment law in 2023: What can HR expect?

    by Alison Woods, Val Dougan and Aisleen Pugh 11 Jan 2023
    by Alison Woods, Val Dougan and Aisleen Pugh 11 Jan 2023

    What are the legal developments that HR teams should look out for this year and beyond?

    • Benefits
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    • Flexible working

    Jobseeker confidence at all-time high

    by Rob Moss 10 Jan 2023
    by Rob Moss 10 Jan 2023

    Jobseeker confidence among professional candidates at record high, despite expectation that UK is entering a recession.

    • Latest News
    • Flexible working
    • Productivity

    Managers more positive about working from home and flexible hours

    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Jan 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Jan 2023

    Managers' attitudes to working from home and flexible working have improved, but many still believe long hours are necessary for career progression.

    • Stress
    • Hybrid working
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    2023 predictions for HR: From ‘quiet hiring’ to help with healing

    by Jo Faragher 4 Jan 2023
    by Jo Faragher 4 Jan 2023

    Analyst company Gartner has issued its top 2023 predictions for HR leaders, and the appearance of hybrid working and expanding...

    • Hybrid working
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    Tuesday to Thursday most popular working week, data shows

    by Jo Faragher 4 Jan 2023
    by Jo Faragher 4 Jan 2023

    Employees tend to go into the office between Tuesday and Thursday, according to an analysis of mobile phone data.
    PlaceMake.io...

    • Hybrid working
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    Travel disruption: employers’ questions answered

    by Stephen Simpson 3 Jan 2023
    by Stephen Simpson 3 Jan 2023

    Stephen Simpson provides answer to employers' questions as rail strikes and airport staff shortages cause travel disruption for employees.

    • Hybrid working
    • Offices
    • Latest News

    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.

    • Hybrid working
    • Industrial action / strikes
    • Latest News

    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.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Four-day week

    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
    • Disability
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    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.

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