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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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    Aviva to close offices in hybrid working plan

    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jan 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 21 Jan 2021

    Aviva has announced the closure of offices across the UK alongside plans for an expansion of flexible working.

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • Flexible working

    A fifth of workers feel employer prepared for hybrid working

    by Jo Faragher 20 Jan 2021
    by Jo Faragher 20 Jan 2021

    Only one in five workers feels that their employer is prepared to support a more hybrid working model, combining home...

    • Automation
    • Hybrid working
    • Coronavirus

    Five future-of-work decisions HR must now address

    by Adam McCulloch 19 Jan 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 19 Jan 2021

    Organisations must revisit workforce strategies, the role of the office, technology, employment models and diversity in the light of a year in which 'tectonic plates have shifted', argues Gartner.

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    • Latest News
    • Recruitment & retention

    Remote working job adverts trebled in a year

    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Jan 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Jan 2021

    The number of jobs advertised as a home working role more than trebled in 12 months, with indications that businesses...

    • Hybrid working
    • Testing
    • Coronavirus

    Unilever boss signals flexible work here to stay

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jan 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jan 2021

    Alan Jope also strongly advised all Unilever employees to be vaccinated against Covid as soon as they had the chance.

    • Testing
    • Coronavirus
    • Employment law

    Establish a legal right to furlough for working parents: TUC

    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jan 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 14 Jan 2021

    Major survey finds 78% of working mothers have not been able to gain furlough funding.

    • Coronavirus
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Chancellor says permanent working from home not inevitable

    by Jo Faragher 11 Jan 2021
    by Jo Faragher 11 Jan 2021

    Working from home will not be the ‘new normal’ in a post-Covid world, chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.

    • Testing
    • Coronavirus
    • Financial services

    ‘Aggressive’ tactics used to ditch senior execs who are working at home

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Jan 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Jan 2021

    Some employers in sectors badly effected by the pandemic have resorted to aggressive tactics with the aim of cutting senior...

    • Coronavirus
    • Employee relations
    • Employment law

    Flexible working: Can we go back on arrangements in future?

    by Jonathan Mansfield 8 Jan 2021
    by Jonathan Mansfield 8 Jan 2021

    The unprecedented shift towards home and flexible working brought about by Covid-19 has led many employers to announce permanent new...

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    • Coronavirus

    Zurich offers parents ‘lockdown leave’ to help with childcare

    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Jan 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Jan 2021

    Zurich is offering two weeks’ fully-paid emergency ‘lockdown leave’ to parents and carers affected by school closures.
    The Swiss insurance...

    • Testing
    • Childcare
    • Coronavirus

    Furlough parents affected by school closures, urges TUC

    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Jan 2021
    by Ashleigh Webber 4 Jan 2021

    The TUC says employers should offer furlough to parents affected by school closures and who lack childcare as a result.

    • Automation
    • Latest News
    • HR strategy

    Four-day week affordable for most businesses, study suggests

    by Adam McCulloch 30 Dec 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 30 Dec 2020

    Working a four-day week on full pay is viable for most UK companies, a study of thousands of businesses has sought to demonstrate.

    • Coronavirus
    • Testing
    • Latest News

    Has pandemic working been just a ‘flex-periment’?

    by Paul Hamer 22 Dec 2020
    by Paul Hamer 22 Dec 2020

    Organisations that shied away from flexible working for years suddenly shifted to an entirely remote workforce back in March, but...

    • Coronavirus
    • Gender
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Why does location matter for diversity and inclusion?

    by Steve Black 17 Dec 2020
    by Steve Black 17 Dec 2020

    For organisations uncertain about remote working, 2020 was the year their preconceptions turned around. But in the ongoing quest for...

    • Hybrid working
    • Coronavirus
    • Testing

    ‘Work at home? That’s scaremongering’: business risk and Covid lessons

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Dec 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Dec 2020

    Experts look back over the past nine months and gauge lessons learned.

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