What day of the week
is it?
A study
by the Centre for Economic Performance has found that
productivity in the workplace varied according to the
day of the week. Tuesday accounted for the largest
share of the work done (18.8%) and Friday the lowest
(16.8%). The authors of the report argue that employers
could benefit by reorganising working time.
Calling from
home
Business
- process outsourcing company Teletech UK is aiming to
recruit 500 home – based staff across the UK to support
its major clients. The company hopes the scheme will be
attractive to staff who are unable to travel or have
child care commitments.
Working
mothers
The
majority of mothers have great difficulty in finding
flexible work that fully uses their skills and
experience according to a survey by Workingmums.co.uk.
They found that 83% of respondents said it was hard to
find flexible work that utilised their skills. More than
half of the respondents felt that employers were not
sympathetic to working mothers.
Flexibility to
Manage cash
AXA, the
financial services firm, has introduced a pilot scheme
to give 400 staff one hour a month off to manage their
money. The firm has even given online tools to help with
budget planning, calculating savings and managing
debt. AXA
will shortly be rolling the programme out to all 12,000
of its staff.
Commute to Work Highest
Ever
There are new demands for flexible
working as a survey shows the number of commuters
spending an hour or more travelling to work has
increased dramatically.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "We work
some of the longest hours in Europe, and on top of this
have to endure the second longest daily commute in
Europe - on average 54 minutes per day. This adds up to
a very stressful working week for millions of workers
across the UK, and employers could ease this strain for
their workers by introducing flexible
working."
