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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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    Employment Rights Bill: 12 key takeaways

    by Liz Stevens 11 Oct 2024
    by Liz Stevens 11 Oct 2024

    Liz Stevens, professional support lawyer at law firm Birketts, highlights the key takeaways from the long-awaited Employment Rights Bill

    • Fire and rehire
    • Zero hours
    • Shared parental leave

    Employment Rights Bill: government outlines next steps for future reforms

    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 10 Oct 2024
    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 10 Oct 2024

    The government unveils its Next Steps to Make Work Pay alongside the publication of its Employment Rights Bill today.

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    • Zero hours
    • Employment law

    ‘This Bill means business’: lawyers react to employment rights proposals

    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 10 Oct 2024

    Employment lawyers give their initial reactions to the Employment Rights Bill after its full publication.

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    Travelodge offers flexible roles in recruitment drive

    by Jo Faragher 9 Oct 2024
    by Jo Faragher 9 Oct 2024

    Travelodge has said it will allow staff the option to choose hours and work that suits them as it launches a recruitment drive to fill more than 270 jobs.

    • Hybrid working
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    Non-hybrid employers missing out on graduate talent

    by Jo Faragher 8 Oct 2024
    by Jo Faragher 8 Oct 2024

    Companies that don’t offer hybrid working could be missing out on the best graduate talent, according to a survey by...

    • Zero hours
    • Employment law
    • Latest News

    This week’s Employment Rights Bill ‘could take years’ to kick in

    by Jo Faragher 7 Oct 2024
    by Jo Faragher 7 Oct 2024

    Labour’s reforms to workers’ rights - due this week - could take years to bed in and will not all be introduced at once, reports suggest.

    • Hybrid working
    • Offices
    • Business performance

    Presence and productivity: does office time really make a difference?

    by Jo Faragher 3 Oct 2024
    by Jo Faragher 3 Oct 2024

    Does being in the office mean productivity is higher, or can employees achieve better outputs at home?

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    • HR strategy

    Return to office mandate: has Amazon signalled the start of the post-diversity era?

    by Dr Melissa Carr 20 Sep 2024
    by Dr Melissa Carr 20 Sep 2024

    While some companies are moving back to the office, others are expanding flexible working practices.

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    • Public sector

    More flexibility for teachers on way to reverse recruitment crisis

    by Adam McCulloch 19 Sep 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 19 Sep 2024

    Marking and lesson planning are two of the tasks that teachers could carry out away from their usual workplace under the plans.

    • Hybrid working
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    • Flexible working

    Fewer UK employers offering fully remote roles, LinkedIn finds

    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 18 Sep 2024
    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 18 Sep 2024

    New data from LinkedIn highlights a general decline in the number of UK organisations hiring for fully remote positions.

    • Hybrid working
    • Civil Service
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    Government relaxes three-day office working rules for civil servants

    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 18 Sep 2024
    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 18 Sep 2024

    The government is not enforcing rules that require civil servants to spend three days a week in the office, reports suggest.

    • Hybrid working
    • Offices
    • Latest News

    Amazon orders full-time office return

    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 17 Sep 2024
    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 17 Sep 2024

    Amazon chief executive tells staff they must return to the office five days a week from January 2025, ending its hybrid working policy.

    • Employment law
    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
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    Business secretary defends Employment Rights Bill

    by Jo Faragher 17 Sep 2024
    by Jo Faragher 17 Sep 2024

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds has rebutted accusations that the government’s Employment Rights Bill could stifle employers.

    • Hybrid working
    • Offices
    • Professional services

    Two-thirds of professional service firms stop advertising fully remote roles

    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 11 Sep 2024
    by Kavitha Sivasubramaniam 11 Sep 2024

    Two in three (64%) professional service companies have stopped advertising fully remote roles, while nearly one in four (23%) have increased employee office days in the past 12 months.

    • Hybrid working
    • Employee engagement
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    Oxytocin: Human bonds in the age of hybrid working

    by Patrycja Sobera 11 Sep 2024
    by Patrycja Sobera 11 Sep 2024

    Post-pandemic ways of working mean we spend less time face-to-face than ever. How can organisations make the most of the oxytocin boost from real-life interactions?

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