Mark Edwards, general manager at www.rocketlawyer.co.uk, asks if businesses are ready for changes to flexible working legislation. Flexi-time. Work-life balance. Remote working. These are just some of the terms businesses up and down the country will be hearing a lot more… Read More ›
Law firm Pinsent Masons is to offer greater access to flexible working as part of an initiative to achieve gender balance in the firm’s leadership. ‘Project Sky’ aims to ensure that women comprise 25% of the firm’s partnership by 1… Read More ›
Flexible working has become an accepted and normal way of doing business, according to panellists at last week’s Work and Family Show. In a session on flexible working, chief executive of charity Working Families Sarah Jackson said flexibility had gained… Read More ›
The extension of the right to request flexible working is to be implemented on 30 June, a Department for Business, Innovation and Skills minister has said. Jenny Willott, the minister for employment relations and consumer affairs, was speaking at the Work… Read More ›
Employers should be aware that different generations have different needs the workplace, the UK & Ireland HR director for Enterprise Rent-a-Car has said. Speaking at a Working Families briefing on flexible working, Leigh Lafever-Ayer said Enterprise has a relatively young… Read More ›
The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) needed to practice what it preaches and further embed flexible working in the organisation. Head of research and policy David Pardey explains the benefits and challenges. ILM grew interested in the issue of… Read More ›
Larger SMEs can struggle to implement flexible working practices, according to a report published last week. The Workingmums.co.uk good practice report features case studies of successful flexible working arrangements from the organisation’s Top Employers Awards last year. It is published… Read More ›
