As more companies adopt remote and hybrid workforce models, they become more receptive to flexible work arrangements. Many firms are opting to stay flexible even when life returns to normal... As more ...

Claims can arise if the employer ignores the flexible working request altogether. In Clayton Brown v Cumbria County Council, the employment tribunal found that an employer had failed to respond to the ...

Employees across the country have today been granted the legal right to request flexible working from the day they enter a new job. Previously, the right was only applicable if someone had worked for ...

While the law on the right to request flexible working is changing on 30 June 2014, employers need to bear in mind that the old rules still apply to employees’ requests to work flexibly submitted ...

As more businesses switch to remote and hybrid workforce models, they're naturally becoming more open to flexible work options. The lockdowns that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic helped leaders ...

I've received a flexible working request from a full-time member of staff. Do I need to take their request seriously? Following a change in the eligibility requirements for flexible working, all staff ...

Do you remember the days where we'd trundle into the office five days a week? Where we'd juggle the commute with our 9-5s and somehow fit in a social life AND workouts? It seems mad that for a lot of ...

The government is proposing to give all employees the right to request flexible working when they start new jobs, the BBC understands. A consultation is to be launched on the proposals this week. The ...

Flexible working is a broad term but encompasses a different style of work from the conventional 9-5 in the office, and could include adaptations to where someone works, to save them from commuting, ...