Flexible working: Almost half of staff want to work from home full time

Forty-six per cent of workers would prefer to work from home full time, according to a survey.

The survey of 1,000 office workers by travel company Cruise 118 found that a further 80% would prefer to work at least some of the time from home and only a fifth wanted to work full time in the office. Research shows that 12% of workers now work full time from home, mostly on a self-employed basis, but Cruise 118 predicts this will rise rapidly.

Those surveyed said flexible working, saving on travel costs and avoiding rush hour traffic were the main benefits of home working.

Tories support flexible working

The Conservatives pledged to support flexible working at their annual conference. Theresa May, shadow women’s minister, told a meeting at the Conservative Party conference that flexible working was not a “woolly liberal politically correct policy thought up by a focus group”, but something that helped not only working mothers, but also pensioners who had to work to make their pensions go further and young people who might want to work later into the night and now had the technology to do so.

The Conservatives have stated that they want to raise the right to request flexible working to parents of children under 18.

May also stated that the Conservatives would seek to introduce a private member’s bill in November aimed at strengthening the law against pay discrimination.

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