Working from home
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, including content on working from home.
Remote workers ‘should spend at least two days in office’
A study finds that while remote working is linked to positive wellbeing, it has little effect on stress and productivity.
Consultation closes with huge support for family friendly transparency
As the government consultation into whether employers should have to publish their family-related leave and flexible working policies comes to...
Rail statistics prove need for flexible season tickets
Use of season tickets is falling as commuters’ flexible working arrangements mean they are no longer good value for money.
Remote working roles have doubled in four years
The number of remote working jobs available has doubled in the past four years, according to job board CV-Library.
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Why meeting flexible working requests is easier said than done
With Labour proposing a four-day week and unions campaigning for workers to use technology to spend less time in the...
Flexible working in higher paid jobs trebles
Job adverts with salaries over £60,000 are three times more likely to offer flexible working than they did three years...
Five paradoxes of global remote working
As workforces become more dispersed and global, it’s easy to assume employees can manage on their own and take charge...
Employers should have to ‘opt out’ of offering flexible working, says MP
Flexible working should be offered by default for any job and employers should “opt out” if a job cannot be...
‘Meaningful work and location more important than high pay’ for UK staff
The happiest employers work in diverse workplaces and find that doing meaningful work is more important to them than salary.
Why it’s time to compel all employers to publish parental policies
Recent research claimed that top employers’ parental policies are “invisible”, and a number have now publicly committed to publishing their...
BNY Mellon’s flexible working policy review: what can HR learn?
Last week US bank BNY Mellon informed its employees it was “pausing” a review of its policies that allow them...
Major bank reverses its working from home ban
The world's largest custodian bank and asset servicing company, the Bank of New York Mellon, has halted its plan to stop all 50,000 of its staff across the world from working from home.
How Lloyds Banking Group built agile working into recruitment
Offering flexible working may not be enough to attract and retain talent in today’s job market – agile working needs...
How to make home working a success
When Dolly Parton sang about working 9 to 5 in 1980, the song reflected most employees’ regular office hours. Brian Hall looks at how things have changed in the past 40 years and asks if working from home always works?
Part-time parents missing out on promotion
Parents who work part time are penalised with just a 21% chance of being promoted within three years.
