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• Small talk beats digital distraction

  By flexibleboss on December 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Traditional workplace distractions consume more employee time than digital distractions, according to a US survey. The Bamboo HR survey of over 1,000 full-time employees found that the number one time waster is the ‘water cooler break’, followed by bathroom breaks… Read More ›

• Home sick days – disruptive or productive?

  By flexibleboss on December 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Is it a good idea to allow sick employees to work from home? Access Group’s Rob Gimes gives his thoughts on recording and analysing sick days and their effect. When an employee needs to take time off work due to… Read More ›

• It’s not time that’s money – it’s attention

  By flexibleboss on November 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Workplaces are not designed for our brains to focus. The harder we try the worse it becomes, says environmental psychologist Beatriz Arantes. In this knowledge and creative economy, workers are engaging their brains all the time. At Steelcase, we decided… Read More ›

• Why hot-desking backfires

  By flexibleboss on November 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Empowering employees is more important than saving space says PGi’s Mike O’Boyle. Despite predictions that the workforce will increasingly consist of flexible workers – teleworkers, freelancers, part-timers, etc. – we are actually witnessing an era where enterprise and major companies… Read More ›

• ‘Let’s nail down flexible working’

  By flexibleboss on November 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Andy Lake, author of the Smart Working Handbook, explains how businesses can avoid being inflexible about flexible working. One of the strange things about the growth of flexible working is that a lot of it isn’t very flexible at all…. Read More ›

• Shared parental leave – changing the goal posts

  By flexibleboss on November 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Shared parental leave has been in place for seven months but is it taking off? Heather Greig-Smith looks at progress so far and at controversial government plans to extend the leave to grandparents. It is arguably too early to start… Read More ›

• Magic or madness – extending SPL

  By flexibleboss on November 28, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Sarah Jackson, chief executive of Working Families, looks at the arguments for and against the Chancellor’s plan to extend shared parental leave to grandparents. The Chancellor pulled another rabbit from his hat when he announced plans to extend shared parental… Read More ›

• Best bosses offer practical support

  By flexibleboss on November 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Flexibility and culture can only go so far. Employers need to offer help with the practicalities, says Ben Black, managing director of My Family Care. The rubbish written about family-friendly. There’s a lot of it and it’s not particularly helpful. Fundamentally… Read More ›

• Embrace millennial reality

  By flexibleboss on November 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Negative judgements on millennial working attitudes are inaccurate and unhelpful, says Aimee De Carcenac, consultant at Alexander Mann Solutions. Take the opportunity to change working culture for everyone and attract the brightest stars. As the creators and deliverers of the… Read More ›

• Job sharing: solution to part-time conundrum

  By flexibleboss on November 28, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  We are Alexander Mann Solutions and we’re passionate about helping companies and individuals fulfill their potential through talent acquisition and management. Today, over 3,000 of our talent management experts partner our blue-chip clients in more than 80 countries and help… Read More ›

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