62% of mums say day one flex makes it more likely they will move jobs

Nearly two thirds of working mums say they will be more likely to change jobs next year due to the day one right to flexible working, according to the preliminary results of the workingmums.co.uk annual survey.

The survey already has 1.1K responses to over 70 questions. It covers everything from attitudes to self-employment and funding problems to flexible working, childcare, finances and mental health. 

62% of women say they would be more likely to change jobs since the law changed in April and people can request flexible working from the first day in a job, rather than after six months. It was argued that having to wait six months for flexible working requests to be considered trapped women in the flexible jobs and, for instance, prevented career progression. 

62% is a high number, but 21% of the remaining 48% simply did not know about the change in the law at all.

Flexible working is still the top issue for working mums when it comes to what they need to keep working. The survey covers the type of flexibility they value most, their experience post Covid of flexibility being taken away and some of the drawbacks of remote and hybrid working. Nevertheless, despite the drawbacks, they tend to want more remote working.

What’s more, of the 20% who had flexible working taken away in the last year, 42% left their job as a result, showing how centrally important it is to them and to any retention policies.

The full survey results will be published in September. To take part in the survey, click here.

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