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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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    Part-time women deserve higher salaries than men

    by Personnel Today 12 May 2008
    by Personnel Today 12 May 2008

    In Guru’s blog (‘Italian pay chaos inspires new equality theory’, Personneltoday.com/gurublog, 5 May), he suggests that part-timers don’t deserve pro-rata...

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    Lack of training to manage remote workers prevents flexible working

    by Louisa Peacock 7 May 2008
    by Louisa Peacock 7 May 2008

    Half of small business managers struggle to control home or remote workers’ performance, research has revealed.Findings from the IT Skills...

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    Kellogg’s staff take Friday afternoons off

    by Louisa Peacock 6 May 2008
    by Louisa Peacock 6 May 2008

    Spending Friday afternoons at work will be practically unheard of at Kellogg’s UK offices this summer, thanks to a flexible...

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    Flexible working request delay called for by manufacturers

    by Mike Berry 6 May 2008
    by Mike Berry 6 May 2008

    Manufacturers have urged the government to delay plans to extend the right to request flexible working to more employees.The plea...

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    Career fear forces employees to shun opportunity for flexible working

    by Louisa Peacock 6 May 2008
    by Louisa Peacock 6 May 2008

    People are not taking up their right to request flexible working for fear it will damage their career prospects, research...

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    Flexible working: part-time, full potential?

    by Kate Hilpern 30 Apr 2008
    by Kate Hilpern 30 Apr 2008

    There's a huge body of research to suggest staff who take time off to have a family are disadvantaged at work. But what can HR realistically do to ensure part-time carers are treated equally to full-time workers? Kate Hilpern reports.

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    Rise in flexible working leaves line managers feeling threatened

    by Gareth Vorster 28 Apr 2008
    by Gareth Vorster 28 Apr 2008

    Line managers lack 21st Century skills and fear losing their jobs because of increasing flexible working practices, workplace experts warned...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    • Flexible working

    Flexible working report merely reflects real experiences

    by Personnel Today 23 Apr 2008
    by Personnel Today 23 Apr 2008

    The Working Families review of calls to our helpline during 2007 is most emphatically not a “shopping list” of what...

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    Graduates fear recession will lead to jobs squeeze

    by Mike Berry 17 Apr 2008
    by Mike Berry 17 Apr 2008

    The majority of students graduating from university this year fear that a potential recession would hit their job prospects, according...

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    Flexible working report comes under fire

    by Louisa Peacock 14 Apr 2008
    by Louisa Peacock 14 Apr 2008

    Employers’ groups have attacked a “one-sided” report that suggests flexible working legislation has not worked for many workers since its...

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    Half of contact centres still discount home working

    by Personnel Today 11 Apr 2008
    by Personnel Today 11 Apr 2008

    Despite the wide spread availability of high speed broadband and the advances in technology, home working is still not in...

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    Pensions minister urges employers to encourage gradual retirement

    by Louisa Peacock 8 Apr 2008
    by Louisa Peacock 8 Apr 2008

    Employers must help over-55s to retire gradually rather than encourage a ‘sudden stop’ approach to work, the pensions minister has...

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    Two London NHS trusts outsource supply and management of ‘bank’ staff

    by Mike Berry 3 Apr 2008
    by Mike Berry 3 Apr 2008

    Two of London’s largest NHS trusts have signed a three-year, £45m deal for the supply of nursing and midwifery agency...

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    Flexible working will increase at no cost to career progression

    by Personnel Today 26 Mar 2008
    by Personnel Today 26 Mar 2008

    The recent emergence of ‘virtual jobs’ and ‘virtual communities’ is changing the way companies attract and retain skilled staff. And...

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    Homeworking eases stress levels but leads to fear of being overlooked

    by Rob Moss 20 Mar 2008
    by Rob Moss 20 Mar 2008

    Working from home reduces stress in office workers, but leads to fears about career progression, according to research.A survey of 749...

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