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Flexible working: What strategy employers can adopt

This guide explores the strategies employers can adopt for flexible working, including how to embed it into the organisation, go beyond statutory requirements and measure its impact. It helps employers develop an effective and sustainable approach to flexible working.

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By Peter Thomson, Future Work Forum Director | Stephen Simpson, Brightmine Principal Editor

In our series of guides on flexible working, we cover what strategy employers can adopt; making the business case for flexible working; embedding flexible working practices in your organisation; and measuring the impact of flexible working on your organisation.

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  • Flexible working in context
  • Flexible working models for employers to adopt
    • Following the legal minimum
    • Going beyond the legal minimum
    • Unlimited flexible working

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Updated to reflect changes to the statutory right to request flexible working process in force from 6 April 2024, and the impact on strategies leading employers can adopt.

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About the author

Peter Thomson

Peter Thomson is an expert on the changing world of work and its impact on organisations, leadership and management. He regularly speaks on this topic and has worked with many senior manager groups to inspire them to change their organisational culture. He is a director of the Future Work Forum, a thinktank of leading consultants.

Peter headed up the HR function for Digital Equipment for Northern Europe for 18 years. On leaving, he became a visiting fellow at Henley Business School and for 16 years he studied the changing patterns of work and leadership implications. At the same time, Peter formed Wisework Ltd, now a leading consultancy in the field of smart working.

About the author

Stephen Simpson, Acting content manager - employment law and compliance at Brightmine

Stephen Simpson
Principal Editor – Employment Law and Compliance, Brightmine

Stephen is a principal editor who has worked on the Brightmine employment law and leading practice resources for over 20 years. After growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1980s, he trained as a solicitor in England in the 1990s but soon moved into legal publishing. He was among the first recruits to Brightmine in the year before it was launched as XpertHR in 2002.

Stephen has worked on a wide range of employment law and leading practice resources, including overseeing the creation and expansion of the HR templates resource types (Policies and procedures, Letters and forms, and Contract clauses). He has written up over 1,000 reports on employment law cases and created practical guidance on a range of HR issues for the Commentary & insights tool. He also had a stint working on Personnel Today.

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