Flexible Working Practices
Work from home tips during Covid-19 lockdown
Now Teach is a charity that helps experienced professionals and people returning to work... 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.
Coronavirus: Flexible Working Practice
Flexible Working Practices
How to work remotely and not get stressed or lonely
So many of us are remote working these days and there are many positives about that, but... read more
Flexible Working Practices
Managing home workers during the coronavirus pandemic
Working Families has released a guide which gives advice on how to manage remote workers... read more
Flexible Working Practices
How can employers best support post-Covid working?
Professor Gail Kinman surveys the emerging research on how we have been working in lockdown, assesses the positives and negatives, such as burnout, and suggests how employers can support workers over the next months. read more
workingwise.co.uk
The workforce in the UK is changing. By 2020 1 in 3 workers will be over 50, and by 2030 half of all adults in the UK will be over 50.
workingwise.co.uk is a job and community site specially focused on older workers looking for flexibility and improved work-life balance, and the employers who recognise what they have to offer.
Post A Job Transitioning out of lockdown
The Transition Out of Lockdown Toolkit is now available for HR professionals and business owners.
Taken from years’ of experience of best practice around long-term leave and flexible working, workingmums.co.uk has pulled together all the areas businesses need to think about now and going forward.
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Flexible Working Practices
Leading employers say trust-based management helps boost Covid productivity
A Working Families survey of leading employers shows several have seen productivity rise, which they put down in part to a culture of trust over... read more
Flexible Working Practices
Making the best of hybrid working
What do employers need to do to prepare for more hybrid working in the future? read more
Flexible Working Practices
Why are more employers not advertising for remote workers yet?
A new survey shows a growing appetite for hiring remote workers, but greater reticence about advertising for them. Is this just a time lag thing? read more
Flexible Working Practices
‘74% of finance firms are reviewing their real estate’
A new report suggests many City firms are reviewing their real estate. read more
Flexible Working Practices
Why homeworkers should take time off if they are sick
Alison Collins from Manchester Metropolitan University argues that too many homeworkers try to work on through sickness, but it is in employers'... read more
Flexible Working Practices
How have financial services supported parents in the pandemic?
A webinar last week focused on how some financial services companies have managed during the pandemic and what they have learnt, particularly when it... read more
Flexible Working Practices
Crisis set to accelerate workforce trends already underway
A new survey from McKinsey & Company highlights how Covid-19 is speeding up automation, digitisation and other trends such as greater demand for... read more
Further Reading
Recruitment
Do you have to advertise a job vacancy?
When a role in your team becomes vacant your first priority is to fill it, so that work can continue as normal. Advertising the vacancy might slow the... read more
Gender Equality
Women apprentices earn less than male peers
A new report finds a growing gender pay gap between male and female apprentices. read more
Gender Equality
The case for pay transparency
The Samira Ahmed case highlights the need for pay transparency and for being open to questioning the way things have traditionally been done. read more
Managing Staff
Watchdog publishes new guidance on harassment
The EHRC has published new guidance on how to protect employees from harassment, victimisation and discrimination. read more
Gender Equality
‘Gender pay legislation helps close gender pay gap’
A new study in Denmark shows gender pay legislation helps close the gender pay gap by slowing male wage growth and increasing female promotion. read more
Recruitment
What’s the best way to reach emerging talent?
A new white paper from workingmums.co.uk highlights the main points from a roundtable discussion among leading employers of the best ways to attract... read more
Gender Equality
Women still missing from top ranks
A report from the Fawcett Society says the UK is “generations away” from achieving gender equality as women remain seriously underrepresented in... read more
White papers & Reports 
Work Life Balance
workingmums.co.uk publishes white paper on mental well being after Covid
workingmums.co.uk has published a white paper on its recent roundtable with employers on the well being challenges of working during a pandemic and... read more
Diversity
Diversity and inclusion post-Covid-19
workingmums.co.uk held a virtual roundtable on diversity and inclusion post-Covid-19 in July with a range of different employers. The below is our... read more
Flexible Working
workingmums.co.uk white paper on agile working in an age of coronavirus
workingmums.co.uk held a virtual roundtable with employers from across industry in June to discuss agile working at a time of coronavirus and how it... read more
Recruitment
workingmums.co.uk online roundtable on transition back to work
workingmums.co.uk is publishing a white paper on its virtual roundtable in May on the transition back to work, looking at the way leading companies... read more
