‘Flexible Working’ is the term that refers to working patterns, arrangements, or hours. Examples include part-time, flexi-time, compressed hours, adjusted start and finish times, and alternative work locations such as working from home. Flexible working has historically been of particular benefit to Employees with caring responsibilities outside of work, or health issues. The UK Government
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Over the years, countless studies have been carried out, articles and books have been written, and courses have been created on how best to manage our time – how we can manage our time most effectively to get the most done, and how to achieve the greatest levels of productivity in the time that we
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Information security carries one of the highest risks to organisations for fines and litigation in the event of a breach, so managing this area takes a lot of time, resources, and long-term strategy. Enter Pandemic-inspired lockdowns and the requirement to make overnight decisions. Balancing the need to move quickly with the necessity to act strategically
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In April and May, we wrote about the practicalities and legalities of moving to a hybrid model of working – the practice of working from home for part of the week, and from the workplace for the rest of the week – and how it was being regarded, by many, as a far more practical
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Inspired by the global disruption to traditional working practices caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, is a hybrid model of working where employees work part-time from the workplace and part-time from home, suited to your organisation? In last month’s blog post, we looked at the overriding changes organisations would need to consider when making the shift
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The global, government-initiated responses to Covid-19 have meant that many organisations have had to close their offices indefinitely, with many employees moving to homeworking. This massive change brought to the forefront the need to adjust processes, to embrace digital communications, and, through a situation rarely dealt with prior to the pandemic – the need to
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