A good employer will consistently offer a level of flexibility regarding employees' work duration, location, and schedule.

These employers will make steps to implement a flexible work policy, whenever feasible, encompassing various aspects such as work location (including remote options), working hours, and working patterns.

Access resources and follow essential criteria to help you become a better provider of flexible work, or take the next step and make a pledge to be a Good Employer.

Flexible work

What are the benefits of providing flexible work?

  1. Loyalty and engagement. Individuals in flexible work arrangements often display heightened loyalty to their company, resulting in improved employee engagement.
  2. Higher productivity. In a flexible working environment, employees demonstrate increased productivity, enabling the team to achieve more collectively.
  3. Attracting new talent. Flexible working can also make employers more attractive to talent in today’s competitive labour market.
Flexible work

Make the pledge

Join the Charter as a Supporter and make a commitment to give employees the opportunity to work flexibly wherever possible. Provide a greater equality of opportunity, enabling access to work and creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace will enable access a broad diversity of skills and talent.

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Flexible work criteria

What does best practice look like?

Advice for wherever you are on your good employment journey:

→ Getting started with flexible work commitments

→ Demonstrating commitment to excellent practice

Make the pledge and join the charter

Getting started with Flexible Work commitments

Supporters of the Charter commit to creating jobs which can offer flexibility in hours, location and working patterns, wherever possible. Providing greater equality of opportunity, enabling access to work and creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace, helping us utilise the skills and talents of our workforce, whilst at the same time considering health & wellbeing and carbon reduction impacts.

Demonstrating commitment to excellent practice

If you want to take it a step further, and demonstrate excellence, Members of the Charter will put their commitment to Flexible Work into action within their organisations by meeting the set of criteria. Charter members will be expected to provide evidence of enabling a more flexible workforce to access a broad diversity of skills and talent

  1. Designing jobs with flexibility wherever possible.
  2. Having a greener flexible working policy which includes but is not restricted to location of work/home working, hours of work and working pattern.
  3. Advertising all jobs with clarity on the option of job flexibility from the outset.

The characteristics of a good employer

Flexible work
Real Living Wage
Engagement and voice