Almost every employee with more than 26 weeks’ service has the right to request flexible working and in the last 10 years the number of people working from home has increased by a fifth to reach a record 1.5m, this is according to official figures by the Trades Union Congress which reveals that nearly a quarter of a million (241,000) more people work from home than a decade ago.
Here are four factors that are set to drive the trend to more flexible working approaches:
1. The rise of the App Generation - As the app generation starts work, employers will be challenged to deliver the workplace environments and technologies that meet their expectations of modern working.
2. Employee demand will influence technology decisions - A significant 90% of UK workers say they could work effectively from any location as long as they were given the right technology to do so.
3. Cultural changes will relax IT policies - Increasingly, businesses are becoming more comfortable with employees working in a way that suits them, recognising this greater freedom can help both motivation and productivity.
4. Cloud communication will save time and drive collaboration - As businesses increasingly move their critical applications to the cloud, using a single platform, this issue will start to disappear, freeing up IT departments to focus on building a collaborative workforce that is motivated and productive in every location.
Find out more about the four factors here.
Here are four factors that are set to drive the trend to more flexible working approaches:
1. The rise of the App Generation - As the app generation starts work, employers will be challenged to deliver the workplace environments and technologies that meet their expectations of modern working.
2. Employee demand will influence technology decisions - A significant 90% of UK workers say they could work effectively from any location as long as they were given the right technology to do so.
3. Cultural changes will relax IT policies - Increasingly, businesses are becoming more comfortable with employees working in a way that suits them, recognising this greater freedom can help both motivation and productivity.
4. Cloud communication will save time and drive collaboration - As businesses increasingly move their critical applications to the cloud, using a single platform, this issue will start to disappear, freeing up IT departments to focus on building a collaborative workforce that is motivated and productive in every location.
Find out more about the four factors here.
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