flexible working

Victoria Wakely, Director, People & Business Partners EMEA at Medidata takes a look back over an eventful year for HR.

More than half (51%) of employees are alternating between home and office as more organisations support hybrid working, according to the CIPD.

Following a month-long stint of solely home working, the commuters are coming back and companies have begun rallying their staff back to the office - many in a hybrid fashion.

Now we’ve reached the end of two months of government guidance to work from home, businesses are once again moving forward with their hybrid strategies.

By Paul Hamer, CEO of Sir Robert McAlpine. Over the last two years, almost all businesses have had to adjust their working patterns with many instigating necessary working from home or different team patterns.

More than half (54%) of workers aged 18-34 said they’d likely quit if their company stopped offering remote or hybrid working, with 58% feeling more productive now than pre-pandemic.

According to new research, half (49%) of UK HR managers agree that greater flexible working could work for their business as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, building on the one in five (21%) who say that their business already enabled significant flexible working before the pandemic.