Working Families award winners: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office won the Best New Flexible Working Initiative Award at the 2015 Top Employers for Working Families Special Awards. Find out why below.

Working Families award winners: iCrossing

iCrossing scooped two accolades at the 2015 Working Families' Top Employers for Working Families Special Awards – Best for Motherhood and Best for Line Managers. Read more about its winning entries...

Working Families award winners: Deloitte

Deloitte was a joint winner of The DTCC Best for Innovation award at the 2015 Working Families' Top Employers for Working Families Special Awards. This case study explains its winning strategy.

Flexible working: the best of the bunch

Increasing numbers of employees are requesting flexible working. But which organisations have the right policies and procedures in place to be truly flexible?

Working from home 'transferring cost onto employees'

More than four in ten (43%) employees think that being offered the chance to work from home is the result of employers transferring workspace costs onto the employee, according to a report by Regus.

Few flexible HR roles available

Many HRDs preach the benefits of agile working, but it's not reflected in their external hires.

Top Employers for Working Families special award winners announced

Working Families has announced the winners of the 2015 Top Employers for Working Families Awards, sponsored by Computershare.

Consider employee 'personality types' when implementing agile working

Employers must consider the personality types present in their workforce when implementing an agile working strategy, according to research by the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (Enei).

Only 6% of jobs advertised in the UK mention flexible working

Only 6.2% of jobs advertised in the UK mention flexible working options, according to a national study by flexibility experts Timewise.

Shared parental leave must match maternity benefits to truly foster change

Shared parental leave (SPL) legislation is very good news for the UK. If we can make having babies and the necessary flexibility of early years child rearing a parental opportunity, rather than a...

Top Employers for Working Families shortlist announced

Working Families has announced the shortlist for the annual Top Employers for Working Families Awards, sponsored by Computershare.

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Our future leaders want to combine work and life

The next generation prize flexibility at work. As HR practitioners we must embrace and encourage varied working patterns, and offer solutions with more freedom.