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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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    City workers desert offices in favour of hybrid working

    by Jo Faragher 20 May 2022
    by Jo Faragher 20 May 2022

    Hybrid working in the city: just 14% of City workers consider the office to be their main place of work, according to a YouGov survey.

    • Working from home
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    • Latest News

    Working from home statistics show three-fold increase

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 May 2022

    Working from home statistics released by the TUC show more people than ever are working remotely, but there are regional disparities.

    • Four-day week
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    • Gender

    Lack of flexibility pushes half of women to consider leaving job

    by Ashleigh Webber 16 May 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 16 May 2022

    More than half of women say a lack of flexibility at work has pushed them to leave or consider leaving a job, according to LinkedIn research.

    • Stress
    • Anxiety
    • Hybrid working

    Workers feeing increasingly anxious, burnt out and fearful about cost of living

    by Nic Paton 13 May 2022
    by Nic Paton 13 May 2022

    Mental health in the workplace, anxiety, burnout and worries about the rising cost of living have all been firmly in the spotlight during Mental Health Awareness Week this week (from 9-15 May).

    • Civil Service
    • Working from home
    • Hybrid working

    Rees-Mogg under fire from civil service leader over hybrid working

    by Adam McCulloch 13 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 13 May 2022

    Ministers risk driving ‘good people’ out of Whitehall with their criticism of working at home, the first civil service commissioner...

    • Offices
    • Working from home
    • Business continuity

    Tesco to pioneer office space in local stores

    by Adam McCulloch 13 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 13 May 2022

    Tesco and office space firm IWG team-up to trial a scheme in a suburban London supermarket.

    • Neonatal leave
    • Zero hours
    • Gig economy

    Queen’s Speech: absence of employment bill leaves organisations in limbo

    by Ashleigh Webber 10 May 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 10 May 2022

    The government has been accused of breaking its promises to improve workers’ rights, as the employment bill was excluded from...

    • Working from home
    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News

    Are we happy now? New research Sugar-coats working from home

    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022

    If Alan Sugar is enjoying raging about hybrid working, he'll really love reading the latest happiness at work findings… 

    • Working from home
    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News

    Alan Sugar calls PwC Friday afternoons off a ‘joke‘

    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 6 May 2022

    Entrepreneur and celebrity Alan Sugar has dismissed PriceWaterhouseCoopers' decision to give workers Friday afternoons off throughout summer as a ‘bloody joke’.

    • Working from home
    • Financial services
    • Hybrid working

    PwC staff to benefit from extended summer hours policy

    by Adam McCulloch 5 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 5 May 2022

    Between 1 June and 31 August, the PwC's 22,000 staff will be able to stop working at lunchtime.

    • Working from home
    • Hybrid working
    • Legal sector

    Law firm says staff can work from home with 20% less pay

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 May 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 May 2022

    Staff at law firm Stephenson Harwood can choose to permanently work from home with less pay.

    • Working from home
    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News

    Employers see hybrid working productivity gains, but want staff in offices

    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Apr 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 26 Apr 2022

    Employers are reporting that home and hybrid working has improved productivity, but one in four still want staff to be in the office. 

    • Civil Service
    • Testing
    • Hybrid working

    Department for Education staff told to return to offices

    by Adam McCulloch 22 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 22 Apr 2022

    Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi tells MPs he didn't know why his department's staff had the highest stay-at-home rate among civil servants.

    • Civil Service
    • Working from home
    • Hybrid working

    Hybrid working: executives returning to office less than employees

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Apr 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Apr 2022

    As hybrid working is frowned upon by Jacon Rees-Mogg, research suggests executives spend more time working from home than the employees they are urging to return to the office.

    • Four-day week
    • Workplace culture
    • Latest News

    Government push for shorter work week needed, says study

    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Apr 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 21 Apr 2022

    A national push for a shorter work week would help reduce inequality and improve worker wellbeing, productivity and social cohesion, according to an academic study.

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