Tag: Flexible Working

May 31, 2024

At Personnel Today we are all ears when it comes to new trends. Not all of us are au fait with TikTok but those of us who prefer to keep our phones in our pockets and look where we’re going […]

April 18, 2024

Sixty-two per cent more flexible jobs were advertised in January to March 2024 compared with the same period last year, according to data drawn from analysis of job posts and search data by flexible jobs platform Flexa. The increase in […]

January 18, 2024

In preparation for the move, Wickes partnered with social enterprise Timewise to carry out research on the roles of store managers, operations managers and duty managers to find out what barriers there were to flexible working. It then sought to […]

January 16, 2024

Its survey of 3,000 full-time UK employees asked what motivated or deterred people from applying for a certain job, and found that the majority felt work needed to fit around their life, with 72% stating that their career must allow […]

May 30, 2023

The contracts guarantee six weeks’ leave in the summer, and two weeks off at both Easter and Christmas, without affecting other benefits they receive, including private medical insurance and life assurance. Amazon piloted the contracts at three sites following employee […]

March 1, 2023

In a speech to open the CBI Future of Work Conference today, director-general Tony Danker will say that a new, “radical” approach is needed to address the current labour crisis, which has been exacerbated by generational shifts alongside the Covid-19 […]

February 27, 2023

These are among the key findings of a survey by Careering into Motherhood, which helps employees through career transitions after becoming a parent. Its survey of more than 2,000 working mothers found that 65% feel they have fewer career opportunities […]

December 16, 2022

Business secretary Grant Shapps has revealed that plans for a “single enforcement body” for labour laws had been put on the backburner. It would have brought together three current regulators under one roof and had a remit to impose large […]

December 6, 2022

Darren Jones MP, chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, said: “Updating labour laws to reflect more flexible working is welcome, but as ever, these laws only matter if they are used.” He was responding to yesterday’s government […]

October 31, 2022

Its sponsor, Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi, said that the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill aims to get organisations to “think out of the box and more creatively” about how and when work can be carried out. She noted that while […]

October 28, 2022

If passed, the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill will give employees a day-one right to request flexible working from their employer. Currently, they need to have been in a job for six months before making a flexible working request. It […]