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90% UK businesses support flexible working
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Over 90 per cent of businesses in the UK would support flexible working hours even if there was no legal requirement, according to a new report. The Institute of Directors (IoD) and Unim surveyed over 500 companies in the UK and discovered that concerns about flexible working hours adversely affecting firms are entirely unfounded. It provides strong encouragement to businesses planning to expand flexible working, with one in two of the companies surveyed reporting a noticeable impact on the bottom line. Another two-thirds agreed that more extensions would have no significant impact on their organisation. Susan Ring, chief executive officer of Unum the UK’s leading disability insurer, said: "These findings echo our experience at Unum, in that flexible working has to become part of the company culture in order to work really well. "In principle, as long as the customer is unaffected and the job gets done, then we will consider most requests favourably." The government has further plans to extend the rights to request flexible working for parents of children up until the age of 16. Azzurri is making it easy for organisations to implement secure remote and mobile connectivity.  |
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