Timewise’s annual look at the number of flexible job roles advertised contains insights that employers can’t afford to ignore.
What’s your company’s position on flexible working? Do you offer it proactively, even for new starters, because you believe it’s good for business? Or do you take a more reactive approach, responding to requests from existing employees and not much more?
If you’re one of the former, that’s good to hear – but new figures confirm that you’re in the minority. At Timewise, we publish an annual Flexible Jobs Index, tracking the proportion of jobs which are advertised as being flexible puts that figure at just 15%, and while the trend is upwards – it stood at just 9.5% in 2015 – the pace of change is slow.
Yet, in contrast to the limited supply of flexible roles, the demand is sky-high. Our research has indicated that 87% of UK employees either work flexibly already or want to. That’s quite a gap.
Three key insights that employers shouldn’t ignore
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