How to make remote working a success Flexible Boss is pleased to announce the first in a series of online sessions debating the issues around agile working. Technology company DADI decided to dispense with offices for good. Listen to founding… Read More ›
Homeworking for contact centre workers can provide huge benefits if companies prepare their workers and their technology says Content Guru director Martin Taylor. In the last twelve months there has been a surge in interest in contact centre homeworking as… Read More ›
Employees are actively shaping the working environments of the future, according to a study commissioned by video conferencing provider Polycom. In the UK 72% of people work from home one day a week and it said that by 2022 60%… Read More ›
The most popular place for UK employees to work is at home, a poll by a software company has found. Click Software surveyed 1,000 workers and found that job location is the most important factor for why they stay in… Read More ›
The number of home workers is at its highest level since record began, according to official statistics. The Office for National Statistics today said 4.2 million of the 30.2m million people working between January and March this year were homeworkers… Read More ›
Homeworking could save the UK £3bn and three million tonnes of carbon a year, according to research by consultancy the Carbon Trust. Investigating the potential environmental benefits of a further shift to homeworking, the Trust said technological advances make homeworking… 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 ›
Employers need to establish whether workers are socially and psychologically suited to working from home to take full advantage of flexibility benefits. Research by the London School of Economics and Political Science has found that employees who work from home… Read More ›
More than half of the UK’s small businesses are operated from home, according to research by insurer Direct Line for Business. It said there are 2.5 million home business owners, representing 8% of the UK’s total workforce and 52% of… Read More ›
Homeworkers are putting themselves at a disadvantage when it comes to career. That’s according to the London Business School’s professor of organisational behaviour Dan Cable. He was interviewed for BBC Radio Four’s programme The Homeworker, which aired today. Presenter Lucy… Read More ›
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