Flexible Working Practices
Managing flexible teams
The Government is reviewing flexible working policy over the next year. One focus is making it a day one right for people to request flexible working.... read more
Flexible Working Practices
The flexible working practices section discusses flexible working as a strategic tool organisations can use to improve performance and productivity. It outlines the different types of smart and flexible working, including part-time and compressed hours, as well as agile working.
Flexible Working Practices
The business benefits of a flexible team
How do you manage a flexible team? Claire Nightingale is Global Head of Finex Financial Institutions Claims Advocacy at Willis Towers Watson, the... read more
Flexible Working Practices
Moving to a four-day week
A PR agency in Gloucester has started a pilot to reduce from a five-day week to a four-day week, with employees being paid full-time salaries.... read more
Flexible Working Practices
How to design a flexible job
Working Families published a report this week highlighting how flexible working is not enough if employers want to improve productivity and address... read more
Employer Events
Managed Recruitment
White Papers
Creation Station Discovery Webinar
Together, with our team of 100+ franchise owners, we’ve helped inspire over 950,000 children, families and adults with award winning creative arts... read more
Women in Technology Roundtable
Given tech is one of the key sectors for the future, how can the numbers of women entering it and progressing up the career ladder be improved? read more
Women in Leadership Roundtable
This roundtable will bring together heads of HR and Diversity to discuss the major obstacles to women getting into senior roles and what works to... read more
Flexible Working Practices
What makes for better flexible working?
New white paper launched on flexible working
Employers should do more to gather evidence of the growing demand for flexible working by asking people about their priorities at job interviews in... read more
Diversity
Getting more women into technology
The UK underinvests in addressing the issues that drive women’s underrepresentation in technology-related jobs, according to... read more
Dads
Dads, Mums & Equality
The last decades have seen huge changes in our working lives. The number of women who work after having children has risen significantly, and a... read more
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Flexible Working Practices
Finding the perfect flexible role
Gemma Saward talks to Workingmums.co.uk about how she got her flexible part-time role at WH Smith. read more
Flexible Working Practices
Flexi workers say they are more productive and happier
'Flexible workers more productive'
Workers who are offered the option of flexible working are more productive, happier and less stressed, according to a new study. read more
Flexible Working Practices
Part-time mums most likely to say flexible working bias harmed their career
'Third think career suffers due to flex'
A third of all UK workers believe those who work flexibly create more work for others, according to a new study which finds a similar proportion... read more
Flexible Working Practices
Moving to a four-day week on full pay
SME wins award for four-day week
Rich Leigh is used to people suggesting moving his business, Radioactive PR, to a four-day week on full pay was a gimmick. He points out, however,... read more
Flexible Working Practices
‘Agency workers losing £400 a year ‘
Agency workers face pay penalty, says report
Agency workers face an average pay penalty of £400 a year compared to direct employees with identical qualifications doing identical jobs, according... read more
Flexible Working Practices
What makes for better flexible working?
New white paper launched on flexible working
Employers should do more to gather evidence of the growing demand for flexible working by asking people about their priorities at job interviews in... read more
Further Reading
Gender Equality
Social activist movements ‘shifting power dynamics at work’
Heightened social activism and employment trends have resulted in employees reconsidering how they think and feel about their employers, according to... read more
Gender Equality
Report calls for action to close digital gender gap
Governments should set national digital strategies that actively aim to close the gender digital access, adoption and usage gaps and improve the... read more
Diversity
‘One in four BAME employees has witnessed or experienced racism from managers’
One in four BAME employees witness or experience racism
A quarter of BAME employees has witnessed or experienced racist harassment or bullying from managers in the last two years, according to a new report... read more
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Managing Staff
Call for more understanding of the impact of fertility treatment on employees
Impact of fertility treatment on employees
A leading fertility clinic is calling for greater support in the workplace for people who are undergoing fertility treatment or who are involuntarily... read more
Gender Equality
Bridging the gender divide
How can we bridge the gender divide? An event on Wednesday at this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas sought to address the issue from several... read more
Gender Equality
Gender pay gap falls 0.5% for full-timers
The average gender pay gap for full-time workers stands at 8.6% – its lowest level yet, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).... read more
Gender Equality
Reduced access to justice and other backward moves noted in equality report
Alarming reductions in access to justice, increasing child poverty and a weakened safety net for the poorest, growing challenges for those with... read more
Gender Equality
‘Crisis of trust’ in BBC outlined in report on equal pay
The BBC has failed to live up to its duty of advancing equality of opportunity by paying far less to women working in comparable jobs to men,... read more
Recruitment
‘Firms failing to modernise their offering to freelances’
Few UK companies are fully prepared to modernise their approach to attract and retain the specialist skills increasingly supplied by the freelance... read more
Gender Equality
All combat roles now open to women
The Defence Secretary has announced that all roles in the military are now open to women. Gavin Williamson said women already serving in the Army are... read more
Flexible Working Practices
An agile workforce for a fast-moving world of work
The fast-moving nature of today’s working world means that employers often need rapid access to skilled workers on a project by project basis.... read more
