Working Families Special Award winners announced

Britain’s most family-friendly workplaces in 2016 have been unveiled by Working Families

Why businesses benefit when they care for their carers

Minister for community and social care Alistair Burt highlights employer best practice

Flexible working policies and restrictive covenants go into HR Room 101

Top HR professionals share the people policies they want to see binned forever

Employers should embrace sporting events

The majority (82%) of employees believe embracing Euro 2016 matches is good for staff morale

No single business case for flexible working

Different sectors and divisions, even within the same organisation, will require their own context-specific cases

Flexible job market is 'broken'

Only 8.7% of job vacancies with salaries of £20,000 per year offer some degree of flexibility

Stress worse at home than at work for a fifth

Just 46% of employees say they feel able to discuss stress at home with their managers

Six-hour days extremely popular with HR professionals

Academic Cary Cooper explains the drawbacks of working a traditional eight-hour day

Top Employers for Working Families Awards shortlist announced

HR magazine is a media partner for the awards and editor Katie Jacobs sat on the judging panel

Londoners less likely to work flexibly

Just over half of employees based in the capital work flexibly, compared with 54% nationally

Half of firms allow remote working

Despite this the UK is lagging behind other countries when it comes to working outside of the office