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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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    WFH: Six pillars of effective homeworking

    by Denis Barnard and Bhagyashree Pancholy 12 Jun 2020
    by Denis Barnard and Bhagyashree Pancholy 12 Jun 2020

    During the current pandemic crisis, business leaders handling the avalanche of government legislation have had another issue on their minds...

    • Absence
    • Latest News
    • Sickness absence management

    Domestic abuse review to consider salary advances and unplanned leave

    by Ashleigh Webber 10 Jun 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 10 Jun 2020

    The government is considering how victims of domestic abuse can be better supported by their employers and is looking at...

    • Automation
    • Change management
    • Coronavirus

    Pandemic is a business transformation opportunity for HR

    by Adam McCulloch 8 Jun 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 8 Jun 2020

    Covid-19 is a tragedy that HR can use to help transform business, global business forum hears.

    • Latest News
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    Flexible working ‘nudges’ result in 30% uplift in job applications

    by Ashleigh Webber 29 May 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 29 May 2020

    Recruiters that were prompted to consider flexible working when posting a job were 20% more likely to list flexible work...

    • Benefits
    • Change management
    • Employee relations

    Personnel Today Awards 2020: entry deadline extension available

    by Personnel Today 29 May 2020
    by Personnel Today 29 May 2020

    With just one week left until the original deadline, we announce that organisations can apply for a two-week extension to...

    • Change management
    • Latest News
    • Global mobility

    Post-coronavirus: How companies can learn from blockchain

    by Tamara Haasen 27 May 2020
    by Tamara Haasen 27 May 2020

    Tamara Haasen describes how blockchain influences the peer-to-peer structure of technology company IOHK and how all employers could apply it...

    • Coronavirus
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Working from home proves real bonus for City employees

    by Adam McCulloch 26 May 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 26 May 2020

    Large majority of finance workers find lack of commuting a key benefit in their new working lives.

    • Coronavirus
    • Childcare
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Coronavirus will widen gender gaps at work and home

    by Jo Faragher 14 May 2020
    by Jo Faragher 14 May 2020

    More women will lose their jobs than men and the coronavirus will widen gender gaps both at work and at...

    • Stress
    • Coronavirus
    • Constructive dismissal

    ‘Businesses must be vigilant on employee stress as lockdown eases’

    by Adam McCulloch 7 May 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 7 May 2020

    Companies should not impose the same targets and expectations as they did before lockdown, warns a leading employment lawyer.

    • Europe
    • Finland
    • Latest News

    Will working from home remain a perk or become a right?

    by Tatevik Grigorian 6 May 2020
    by Tatevik Grigorian 6 May 2020

    Employees have had the right to request flexible working – including working from home – for some time now. Remote...

    • Coronavirus
    • Health and safety
    • Latest News

    Government consults on draft return-to-work guidelines

    by Jo Faragher 4 May 2020
    by Jo Faragher 4 May 2020

    Staggered start times, reduced hot-desking and new hygiene procedures could enable workplaces to reopen.

    • Coronavirus
    • Employee engagement
    • Latest News

    Post-lockdown: reintroducing employees to the workplace

    by Brian Kropp 4 May 2020
    by Brian Kropp 4 May 2020

    Gartner's Brian Kropp addresses key questions about the post-lockdown workplace environment - what will be the 'new normal'?

    • Coronavirus
    • Financial services
    • Latest News

    Barclays chief executive: Flexible working will become the norm

    by Jo Faragher 29 Apr 2020
    by Jo Faragher 29 Apr 2020

    Barclays chief executive Jes Staley has claimed that office blocks housing thousands of workers could become a thing of the...

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • HR transformation

    Half of workers expect remote working reversal after Covid-19

    by Rob Moss 16 Apr 2020
    by Rob Moss 16 Apr 2020

    Despite many workers saying they feel trusted and that employers have done well in implementing working from home over the...

    • Social mobility
    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News

    Only a third of graduates confident about securing role

    by Jo Faragher 15 Apr 2020
    by Jo Faragher 15 Apr 2020

    Only a third of this year’s graduates are confident they will secure a graduate job when they leave university, according...

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