BENEFITS OF FLEXIBLE WORKING
Your employees are a valuable and expensive resource. Consequently successfully managed, flexible working arrangements can result in enormous benefits to the business, managers and staff alike.
Cost Savings and Higher Returns
- Reduction in overheads and running cost through more efficient use of facilities.
- A motivated workforce achieves a higher level productivity, which then reflects on the organisations success.
Improved Service Delivery
- Extended business hours can be covered with flexible work schedules
- Reduce stress means reduced sickness absence, while personal commitments can be fulfilled in one's own flexible time.
Recruitment & Retention of Quality Staff
- Good work-life balance encourages employees to stay with the organisation and not seek work elsewhere.
- Flexible working offers greater ability to attract high calibre of new staff in highly competitive market.
- The increased retention of highly skilled staff cuts down the cost of taking new employees as well as transfer of skills and experience to competitor organisations.
Benefits to the individual:-
- Reduce Stress level
- Freedom to balance career and home life
- Improved personal productivity and satisfaction
- Less Commuting
Benefits to the environment:-
- Reduce pollution
- Energy efficient
- Improvement to air quality
- Reduce environmental impacts by cutting travel & paper-generation
- By embracing flexible working, your company will also be helping the environment - with fewer commuters on the road, congestion is reduced and carbon dioxide emissions are lower.
