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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.


    • Offices
    • Coronavirus
    • Childcare

    CMI chief: Return to office could create two-tier workforce

    by Jo Faragher 14 Sep 2020
    by Jo Faragher 14 Sep 2020

    Pushing people back into the office risks creating a two-tier system where ‘white middle-aged males’ are making important decisions, Chartered...

    • Coronavirus
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Big UK cities lagging on footfall as return to office stalls

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Sep 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Sep 2020

    Return to the office in UK's major cities proves slow as businesses are advised to rethink the role of the office.

    • Latest News
    • Flexible working
    • Spain

    Spain to introduce legislation to protect remote workers

    by Jo Faragher 9 Sep 2020
    by Jo Faragher 9 Sep 2020

    Spain is pushing through legislation that will protect the rights of staff who work from home.
    The draft legislation was...

    • Latest News
    • Family-friendly benefits
    • Family-friendly working

    Law and financial firms among top family-friendly employers

    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Sep 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Sep 2020

    Work-life balance charity Working Families has revealed its top family-friendly employers in the UK, including public sector organisations, law firms...

    • Early careers
    • Latest News
    • Flexible working

    Why a future of remote work will fail the next generation

    by David Spencer-Percival 4 Sep 2020
    by David Spencer-Percival 4 Sep 2020

    With Jeremy Hunt declaring that workers need the “fizz and excitement” of working together in an office environment, David Spencer-Percival...

    • Coronavirus
    • Childcare
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Jo Swinson: ‘Inequality may be lasting legacy of pandemic’

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Sep 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Sep 2020

    Progress in addressing gender inequality has stalled during the lockdown, but the new ways of working it has bought could...

    • Offices
    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News

    Flexible season tickets being considered to drive office return

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Sep 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Sep 2020

    The government and the rail industry are working to introduce flexible season tickets to encourage employees to return to the...

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • Public sector

    Four-day week could create half a million public sector jobs

    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Sep 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Sep 2020

    Introducing a four-day working week with no loss of pay in the public sector would create up to half a...

    • Latest News
    • Flexible working
    • Maternity and paternity

    Major law firm allows employees to decide when and where they work

    by Adam McCulloch 26 Aug 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 26 Aug 2020

    Magic circle law firm Linklaters has announced it's revamping its flexible working policy in view of Covid-19 lessons.

    • Offices
    • Coronavirus
    • Personnel Today

    Large firms have no plans to bring all staff back to offices

    by Personnel Today 26 Aug 2020
    by Personnel Today 26 Aug 2020

    Fifty large organisations have said they have no plans to bring all of their employees back to the office full...

    • Hybrid working
    • Coronavirus
    • USA

    Global bank to make working from home permanent

    by Adam McCulloch 25 Aug 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 25 Aug 2020

    JPMorgan Chase will introduce rotational working model with large proportion of staff able to work from home on a regular basis.

    • Offices
    • Coronavirus
    • Financial services

    Office rents tumble as leading firms back homeworking

    by Adam McCulloch 18 Aug 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 18 Aug 2020

    Leasing activity in the capital has fallen by 57 percentage points: PwC and Schroders revise flexible working policy.

    • Hybrid working
    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News

    Working at home has led to longer hours

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Aug 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Aug 2020

    Loss of creative collaboration and working for an extra week a month among findings from pandemic studies of working at home.

    • Hybrid working
    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses

    Thousands of BP staff may switch to remote working permanently

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Aug 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 Aug 2020

    BP is planning to shift almost 50,000 of its employees to remote working as it reviews its office portfolio and...

    • Carers
    • Latest News
    • Family-friendly working

    More support for carers needed to keep staff in work

    by Rob Moss 11 Aug 2020
    by Rob Moss 11 Aug 2020

    Research by Carers UK has shown that employers are seeing the health, wellbeing and productivity of their workforces adversely impacted...

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