Five Reasons to Offer Flexible Working

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With the age of connectivity upon us, the world of work is changing faster than ever before. In the past workers were unavoidably shackled to a 9-5 lifestyle in a bricks and mortar office through necessity rather than choice.

Now technology is enabling the collaboration and sharing of content with anyone, whenever and wherever’s needed. Cloud technology and the birth of communication tools such as Google Hangouts, Skype and Facetime mean that employees can be anywhere in the world and still be in ‘the office’.

Since the 30th June 2014 every employee in the UK has the right to request flexible working. So with the future already here it’s essential that companies don’t fall behind the pack. Offering flexible working options could be one of the best things that your company could do today and right now I’m going to explain why.


The labour market demographic is changing
As the labour market demographic changes so too are the needs and desires of the colombia phone number resource workforce. For non-millennials (those born before 1980) control over work, development opportunities and pay are the key drivers for work satisfaction. Millennials on the other hand (born after 1980) have different requirements.

As millennials invariably work with less job security; retire later and do so with or without a pension, their attitudes to work have changed significantly.

PWC’s recent global generational study found that millennial employees are unconvinced that excessive work demands are worth the sacrifices to their personal life. Millennials value work/life balance and they place a high priority on workplace culture. Flexibility in where they work and how much they work is a key driver in maintaining millennial satisfaction ……. which leads on nicely to our next point.


Greater retention of staff
An employee survey carried out for CIPD by Kingston University/Ipsos MORI found that “workers on flexible contracts tend to be more emotionally engaged, more satisfied with their work, more likely to speak positively about their organisation and less likely to quit.” A happy workforce is key to retaining staff and offering flexible working helps employees to strike a happy work-life balance whilst ensuring that out of work factors such as children or caring for family members doesn’t get in the way of work commitments.