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Flexible Working - Brave companies
When is the right time to introduce Flexible working - many companies have different views. - this is just mine.
Putting the fizz into flexibility
How do you address the issues which affect women returning to work after having children? For Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd, you start by finding out what women who have done it think.

Benefits to Transport and the Environment of Flexible Working
We have all been there, trying to get to work during rush hour. A journey that should only take 10-15 minutes under normal circumstances takes an hour or more due to the increasing traffic on roads. This means staff are often ‘stressed-out’ by the time they reach their workplace.

Working for working mums
What do you do when your children are off sick or there are medical checks, clinics to attend, inset days or other myriad child-related appointments to keep? There are only so many days you can take off work, as many mothers have discovered. Flexible working can seem the only solution for mothers who want or need to work, but how can you find it? Enter Gillian Nissim. She is a working mum of two boys and found herself and many of her friends in a similar position, needing flexible yet challenging work, but not being able to find it. She set about doing something about it.
Holiday nanny
Nicky Grant started her Holiday Nanny business after needing a babysitter on holiday. Just over three years later, she has won awards and is going global.
Networking for parents
Caroline Artis is a partner at Ernst & Young. When she went on maternity leave she realised that more support was needed for returning mums. Now she heads a Parents' Network which provides a growing range of advice and help for working parents in the firm.
Traffic Problems solved by Flexible working
We have all been there, trying to get to work during rush hour. A journey that should only take 10-15 minutes under normal circumstances takes an hour or more due to the increasing traffic on roads. This means staff are often ‘stressed-out’ by the time they reach their workplace. Thanks to Simon Thurlow for help with this article.
SMEs and Flexible Working: the Perfect Match?
Flexible working could be a match made in heaven for small but ambitious companies because it allows staff to grow with the business. One company tells why it works for them.
Top tips on how to manage flexible workers
Flexible working is all the rage and many companies are using it to get round the recession. It saves on overheads, helps recruitment and retention of experienced staff and reduces absence. But what are the barriers and how do you manage flexible workers? Here are some tips on how to make flexible working work for you.
What is 'flexible working' doing to our workforce?
The MD muses over the changes for the next few years in our workforce.
Successful Management and Mobile Working
How do you get the best out of your staff using todays technology
The Mind Body and Soul Solution to Stress
I hope to provide you with key insights into how your business can succeed without the unnecessary stress and potential burnout.

Other flexible working Related Articles

Small Business: Working From Home - Fundamentals
If you run a small business, especially if you are just starting out, working from home can be a great way to run that business. It can save time and money, make life more flexible and solve all sorts of other issues into the bargain. The big difficulty most people face when working from home is being able to separate their work life from their personal life. So here are my two top tips to get you focussed on the fundamentals of working from home.
On the Search for the Flexible Working Environment
Creating a more flexible working environment is not as far fetched as it used to be. With the entry of the Gen x and Gen y clan along with 78 million baby boomers heading toward retirement, companies are easing their stronghold on mandating the typical 9-5 working environment. But how do you ask your employer to change your workday structure?
What Working Women Want Mo$t
A new survey of some 12,000 working women found that above all else--flexible schedules, more affordable health and child care, etc.--working women most want a (freakin') raise. And some jerk named Dan has a *brilliant* idea as to how they can get one.

Entrepreneurs Sometimes It Pays To Be Flexible – Sometimes It Does Not
Entrepreneurs are often told to be flexible in their approach to business, but often it is imperative that you are NOT flexible. Here’s a few examples.
Top tips on how to manage flexible workers
Flexible working is all the rage and many companies are using it to get round the recession. It saves on overheads, helps recruitment and retention of experienced staff and reduces absence. But what are the barriers and how do you manage flexible workers? Here are some tips on how to make flexible working work for you.
What is flexible working anyway?
The way we work is changing but employers often find it hard to understand what its all about. This article explores what flexible working is and provides a challenge for us all to cease the opportunities that this new way of working can provide.
Working for working mums
What do you do when your children are off sick or there are medical checks, clinics to attend, inset days or other myriad child-related appointments to keep? There are only so many days you can take off work, as many mothers have discovered. Flexible working can seem the only solution for mothers who want or need to work, but how can you find it? Enter Gillian Nissim. She is a working mum of two boys and found herself and many of her friends in a similar position, needing flexible yet challenging work, but not being able to find it. She set about doing something about it.
Useful Tips for Setting Up You Home Office
As more and more of us take to having a 'hobby business' or online business working from home, many more people are utilising their kitchens, dining rooms and other household space as their home office. Employers are now looking at how they can reduce building costs and rental space by introducing flexible working patterns and locations. In the next 5 - 10 years home working will not be as unique as it seems to be now.
Any time, any place, anywhere
Flexible working is normally conceived as working part time, compressed hours or starting earlier/finishing later. But what if your work was so flexible that it meant you could move to the other side of the world with virtually no impact? That is what Lysette Parbhu has done. She set up her ethical children's clothes company, Babies in Sheep's Clothing, in the UK and has just moved to South Africa for her husband's business and is still able to work more or less as normal around her two children.

Working mums can have the best of both worlds
Is is possible for a mum to have a working career and still be a good mother to her children? Can mothers really successfully have it all? Here are some business ideas which allow women to be able to continue working flexible hours based around their family needs hence reducing any feeling of guilt.
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