Flexible working policy
Workforce Management Glossary
Flexible working policy
What is a flexible working policy?
Flexible working policies indicate that employees do not have to work out of the office during traditional business hours. Rather, they can choose to work from home or another location, so long as they continue to perform their key tasks to the appropriate standard.
Why do businesses implement flexible working?
Flexible working policies can be business specific or tailored to suit individual needs. Either way, businesses look to be flexible in order to cater to changing expectations around work. This flexibility is key to everything from talent acquisition to workplace morale and employee retention.
Businesses may choose to implement a policy where employees are only required to work from the office on certain days. Flexible working arrangements can also be specific to individuals in order to better accommodate employees. For example, where an employee has to pick up their child from school, they may work in the office in the morning, pick their child up in the afternoon and work remotely until closing.
How can a business accommodate flexible working?
When a business decides to create a flexible working policy there are different factors to consider. Firstly, the business has to consult key data and evaluate their equipment to ensure that such a policy can be facilitated.
This is key when you consider that without the right equipment working from home cannot be productive. With Roubler’s workforce management and payroll software, organisations can take their procedures off the page and into the cloud.
With access to systems that utilise technology to information share at the click of a button, organisations have the tools in place to implement flexible working arrangements, whether workers want to operate on a hybrid or fully remote basis.