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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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    Zero-hours contract benefits ‘can outweigh negatives for workers’

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Aug 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Aug 2022

    CIPD report suggests zero-hours contracts benefits can include a better work-life balance.

    • Shared parental leave
    • Flexible working

    Supporting workers with childcare throughout the summer holidays

    by Vicky Walker 9 Aug 2022
    by Vicky Walker 9 Aug 2022

    Employers need to be particularly sympathetic to flexible working requests over summer as parents balance child care and work responsibilities

    • Hybrid working
    • Offices
    • Latest News

    Private spaces for focused work key to office productivity

    by Rob Moss 9 Aug 2022
    by Rob Moss 9 Aug 2022

    Hybrid working research by JLL shows that employees need areas in the office for focused work they might otherwise do at home.

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    • Flexible working

    Should you let your employees work from abroad?

    by Marcin Durlak 2 Aug 2022
    by Marcin Durlak 2 Aug 2022

    Being more flexible about employees’ desire to carry out their job while living abroad may well prove a good way of ensuring your company can retain people.

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • HR practice

    Frasers Group scraps Friday working from home policy

    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Jul 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 15 Jul 2022

    Frasers Group, the retail empire that owns brands including House of Fraser and Sports Direct, has banned staff from working...

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • Flexible working

    Hybrid working: employees reluctant to return to workplace

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jul 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jul 2022

    New data reveals a clear majority of UK organisations are still encountering challenges implementing hybrid working.

    • Hybrid working
    • Early careers
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    Work experience back on offer, but often hybrid

    by Jo Faragher 13 Jul 2022
    by Jo Faragher 13 Jul 2022

    Employers are beginning to offer work experience opportunities again after a break during the pandemic.

    • Hybrid working
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    • Working from home

    Homeworking in the UK more than doubles

    by Rob Moss 12 Jul 2022
    by Rob Moss 12 Jul 2022

    The ONS analysed homeworking statistics between January and March 2022, and compared them to before the Covid-19 pandemic began.

    • Hybrid working
    • Coronavirus
    • Occupational Health

    Business leaders urged to prioritise wellbeing as we emerge from pandemic

    by Nic Paton 1 Jul 2022
    by Nic Paton 1 Jul 2022

    Report urges business leaders to measure employee wellbeing to help improve health and productivity.

    • Hybrid working
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    • Learning & development

    Give wellbeing a board seat: Prof Sir Cary Cooper talks to Oven-Ready HR

    by Chris Taylor 30 Jun 2022
    by Chris Taylor 30 Jun 2022

    Chris Taylor talks to Professor Sir Cary Cooper about hybrid working and how business schools don't teach soft skills.

    • Hybrid working
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    • Recruitment & retention

    Working from home has damaged sense of belonging, finds research

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Jun 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Jun 2022

    Almost half of workers feel working from home has dimished the feeling of 'belonging' to an organisation.

    • Latest News
    • Labour market
    • Flexible working

    Part-time work is lifestyle choice suggests analysis

    by Adam McCulloch 16 Jun 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 16 Jun 2022

    More people are working part-time or in temporary jobs than at any time since the start of the pandemic.

    • Hybrid working
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    • Talent management

    Talent management for a hybrid workforce (webinar)

    by Rob Moss 15 Jun 2022
    by Rob Moss 15 Jun 2022

    ON-DEMAND | Our panel examines the issues that affect talent management in this new world of working, and at HR technology's role at Italian fintech firm Mooney.

    • Hybrid working
    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News

    The outdated views of the anti-hybrid working brigade

    by Lyndon Docherty 9 Jun 2022
    by Lyndon Docherty 9 Jun 2022

    Lyndon Docherty challenges the misinformed views of Elon Musk, Jacon Rees-Mogg and others from the anti-hybrid working contingent.

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • Commuting

    Workers in London say they enjoy the office but not the commute

    by Adam McCulloch 9 Jun 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 9 Jun 2022

    An academic study by King's College finds broad support for working from home and little backing for the views expressed by Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg on the issue.

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