Creating a fairer Britain
The investment that good companies make both in recruiting and training their employees is often wasted when redundancies occur. Likewise as the economic climate improves and business picks up, you may need to expand quickly and have on board a committed, loyal and expert workforce.
Encouraging flexible working both now and in the future gives you continuous access to good employees, sometimes without the costs of full-time working. There are many different forms of flexible working, including:
Each of these options allows you to keep good people on when times are slow, with the option of increasing their hours when things pick up.
Another model of flexible working is to allow your employees to work remotely from home some or all of the time. This won't suit everyone and every business, but the benefits of it to you are that it frees up office space which could help you cut costs.
Flexible working is often very popular with employees. Our lives are very different than they were a generation ago and the demands on our time are no longer simple to foretell and organise. Your employees may well embrace the opportunity to combine their jobs with their lives and your needs.
Find out about other types of flexibility and how to transform the workplace