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Flexible working

New and updated

  • Type:
    Contract clauses

    Annualised hours contract clause

    Overhauled and enhanced to provide more comprehensive clauses, which can be included in a contract of employment.

  • Date:
    5 October 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Hybrid working - the "new normal": What we found out

    Director of Epic HR Gary Cookson recently delivered a webinar for XpertHR entitled Hybrid working - How to personalise the employee experience. During the session, he asked attendees a number of questions about the realities of the new post-Covid world, which is increasingly characterised by hybrid working arrangements.

  • Type:
    Leading practice guides

    Flexible working: Measuring the impact on your organisation

    In this fourth guide, we examine the importance of evaluating flexible working; the timetable for evaluation; which HR metrics to focus on; and how to measure the impact of flexible working in eight key areas.

  • Date:
    4 September 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Flexible working request reforms: A guide to updating your policy

    Forthcoming changes to the law on the right to request flexible working mean that employers will have to amend their flexible working requests policy. We set out nine steps for HR professionals to follow when faced with updating their organisation's policy.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Equality impact assessment form

    A model form to conduct an equality impact assessment on a workplace policy, provision, criterion, practice or activity. The form uses the example of a regular review of an organisation's flexible working requests policy.

  • Date:
    3 July 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Hybrid working - How to personalise the employee experience

    In this webinar we explore how we can: look at hybrid differently in terms of culture, policies, engagement and inclusion not for the many, but for the individual; personalise the hybrid employee experience; and create a hybrid approach that taps into the best of what it could be, and avoids leaving it all to chance.

  • Type:
    How to

    How to manage career breaks

    Updated to remove references to case law on holiday pay that is no longer relevant.

  • Date:
    21 February 2023
    Type:
    News

    Four-day week trial results show 92% will continue policy

    Almost every organisation that took part in the UK trial of a four-day week (92%) has decided to continue with a shorter working week, after the pilot saw a reduction in burnout, anxiety, fatigue and sickness absence.

  • Date:
    13 January 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment law 2023: six key tasks for HR

    We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year.

  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Global flexible working policy

    A model policy to promote the use of flexible working throughout your global operation as part of a wider strategy to create an inclusive culture, improve productivity and attract and retain the best talent.