Legal firm officially implements 4-day working week following successful trial Arken Legal, experts in digital estate planning solutions, has introduced a four-day working week for full time employees following a hugely successful nine-month trial. Since [...]
Women optimistic that more new flexible jobs could open up work options Seventy-three per cent of working mums are optimistic that COVID-19 will mean more flexible jobs being advertised, with three quarters saying they would [...]
HR jobs fall 38% year-on-year but demand for interims holds strong as employers utilise contingent workers Professional vacancies for human resources specialists dropped by 38.1% year-on-year in 2020, however demand for interims remained strong as [...]
One in four employees in the UK will resign if new flexible working standards get revoked Personio has released the findings of a new survey conducted to investigate the impact of the global pandemic on [...]
New Year, new freelance career? For HR professionals looking to make the leap into self-employment, the moment might just have arrived. Insurance broker PolicyBee has uncovered that online searches for freelancers in the HR industry [...]
Christmas comes early, with 40% of employees expecting to extend the festive period With a third of UK employees having more than half their holiday allowance left to take, e-days the absence intelligence company, has [...]
70% of British workers miss office conversation (but hardly anyone’s missed the commute) 70 per cent of British office workers miss the informal chats that come with working in the office, while only 13 per [...]
Working remotely from home has become the new norm for many during the COVID-19 outbreak. But, in addition to helping in the fight against the spread of the virus, what other positives does working from [...]
With the gender pay gap disproportionately impacting the UK’s managers, directors and senior officials, the CMI and GEO are today releasing new guidance to showcase how flexible working can help to close the gender pay [...]
Scotland’s first ‘festival’ of flexible working to help businesses harness the power of flexible working will take place in January 2020. Research by Family Friendly Working Scotland shows that nine in ten (87%) Scottish business [...]