Agile Working

A new report is urging Scottish employers to create more flexibility for frontline workers to help recruit and retain good staff, and reduce skills shortages.

Hybrid work can mean widely different things in practice to groups of employees, according to a report by a university.

The government should incentivise employers to invest in physical activity by providing tax relief on related services and equipment, says a study. 

More than two-thirds (67%) of people think having a work-life balance is more important than their pay and employee benefits combined (59%).

Delegates at the IWFM conference this week heard how most workers do not want to return to the office.

A four-day work week must not mean a reduction in working styles, according to those in the sector.

More than 3,300 workers and 70 UK companies will begin working a four-day week with no loss of pay today (Monday) in the biggest four-day week pilot to take place in the world so far.

Corporate fitness and wellbeing services provider Energy Fitness Professionals – a subsidiary of the Totally Group – has won a five-year contract extension with the Royal Mail.  

Statistics from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) shows employers are relying on contractors to fill resourcing needs.

Most people who took up homeworking because of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic plan to both work from home and in the workplace (‘hybrid work’) in the future, according to data from the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) by the Office for National Statistics.