“ Employers need to be looking at creative and effective ways of motivating the workforce and increasing performance and productivity, rather than simply increasing the workload and working hours of their staff”
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IrishJobs.ie – work life balance arrangements will sustain a skilled and diverse workforce
Date: 29th February 2008
A well run business will offer packages that incorporate work life balance arrangements in order to keep good employees….
The future of HR: From HR to eternity
Date: 25th February 2008
Sociologist Caroline Gatrell, of Lancaster University Management School, predicts that organisations that don't address flexible working will lose out significantly on talent in the next two decades…
Case Study - Sharon Goodman
Date: 14th February 2008
“flexible working has been fantastic because I like to be in charge of my workload…”
Skills gap hinders flexible working for SME’s
Date: 27th February 2008
While small and medium enterprises are embracing flexible working, their ability to go one step further is being held back by a lack of technical knowledge…
Company rewards need to be as diverse as the workforce says
Date: 23rd January 2008
The vast majority of HR professionals (70%) think the priorities of Generation Y lie with work-life balance rather than financial rewards…
Fire Brigades Union: Changes to shift working patterns often bring with them industrial unrest
Date: 15th January 2008
East Sussex Fire Authority is considering four options for shift patterns…
We're tackling thugs head on
Date: 17th April 2007
To combat this, the police chief revealed a review is under way into shift patterns to see if officers could be better deployed.
CBI and TUC talk up flexible working
Date: 16th April 2007
This rigid work structure, which is largely dictated by culture and nothing else, is wasteful in terms of time and resources, damaging to the environment, and harmful in that it impacts on stress levels and the health of employees…
UK: BMW adding 450 Mini jobs
Date: 16th April 2007
Flexible shift patterns, introduced when Mini production began in 2001, have been fine tuned. The plant is now working up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There are two long shifts Monday to Thursday and a permanent Friday-Sunday shift
A Move To Full Shift-working Could Spell Bad News For The Future Health Of The NHS, UK
Date: 13th April 2007
Dr Ahmed-Little goes on to suggest ways that hospitals could improve staffs' tolerance to shift working by improving their rostering
AA's Night Patrol Hits End of Road
Date: 28th March 2007
The AA is changing the way staff shift patterns work. At present, the last shift finishes at midnight. Between midnight and 6am, when the day shift begins, patrol staff or local contractors are "on call" on a job-by-job basis…
All jobs should be flexible, says Children's Minister, Beverly Hughes
Date: 12th March 2007
All British workers - not just parents - should have the right to request flexible working, according to Children's Minister Beverley Hughes, writing in a new book for the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr)
Court heaps pressure on London over EU Working hours
Date: 7th September 2006
An EU court ruling on rest periods is likely to increase the pressure on London to scrap its opt-out from working time rules…
Clampdown on 'rolling-up' holiday pay
Date: Thursday 20 April 2006
"Rolling-up" holiday pay has been ruled illegal by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
UK's opt-out clause in Working Time Directive survives another EU presidency
Date: Friday 2 June 2006
EU ministers have again failed to agree a deal on the Working Time Directive after long talks in Luxembourg.
Exhibition appearance for radical approach to staff rosters in the Emergency Services
Date: Wednesday 19 April 2006
Working time and scheduling experts from Working Time Solutions Ltd will reveal the technology that is helping to revolutionise East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust at this year’s AMBEX Conference & Exhibition.
Working round Clock helps strike a perfect balance
Tuesday 2 May 2006
A company boss who was tired of working 12 hours a day has won an award for her flexible working scheme.
y they're not like us
Date: Monday 3 April 2006
HR and Finance professionals around the world believe that the benefits and packages that motivate Generation Y are distinctly different from previous generations…
Working Time Expert to speak at manufacturing masterclass
Date: Wednesday 12 April 2006
Due to popular demand, working time expert, Jim Whittam, will return to Manchester’s Manufacturing Institute to present a Flexible Workforce (Annualised Hours) Masterclass.
Worn Out UK Workers Could Put Lives At Risk, Compromising Safety
Date: Tuesday 21 February 2006
Tired and worn out workers in the UK are making mistakes that cost money, comprise safety and even put lives at risk say the findings of a new survey launched on Thursday 23rd February 2006.
Part-time working the most common flexible working practice
Date: Monday 28 November 2005
That’s according to 2005 annual employment trends survey published by The Confederation of British Industry. Reporting the responses of 420 private sector employers to a questionnaire that covered a range of labour market issues…
Are long hours worth it?
Date: Friday 21 October 2005
Kevin White and Jim Whittam argue that working overtime is costly financially and in terms of stress, sickness absence and health and safety…
Time for quality working hours – not quantity!
Date: Monday 24 October 2005
British workers are still working longer hours than almost every other country in Europe. That’s the conclusion of a Personnel Today guide about to be published (October 2005) and authored by two of the UK’s leading Working Time Experts, Jim Whittam and Kevin White…
Emergency Services could reap the benefits from changes to working hours
Date: Friday 24 October 2005
Police forces across the UK are being urged to consider a radical new approach to calculating their working hours. A new system which has already been introduced for ambulance and fire service staff could bring huge benefits to police…
Working Time Solutions’ directors Kevin White & Jim Whittam launch Personnel Today One Stop Guide to Managing Working Time, part of a series of One Stop Guides focusing on key employment topics.
Date: Monday 17 October 2005
Time for quality working hours – not quantity!
British workers are still working longer hours than almost every other country in Europe.That’s the conclusion of a Personnel Today guide about to be published (October 2005) and authored by two of the UK’s leading Working Time experts, Jim Whittam and Kevin White…
New online guide to negotiating flexible working
Date: Monday 10 October 2005
Working Families’ legal and practical advice and coaching is now available online. A new Interactive Flexible Working Guide, funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), helps parents and carers consider the legal, financial, workplace, childcare and family issues that can affect their working hours, before giving a step by step guide to negotiating the hours they want…
Work until you drop: how the long-hours culture is killing us
Date: Tuesday 23 August 2005
With the longest working week in Europe, experts say Britain's health and productivity will decline unless something is done about it…
Survey Finds Workers Average Only Three Productive Days per Week
Date: Tuesday 23 August 2005
Most Respondents a Microsoft Office Survey Say They're Working Longer, But Are Less Productive; They Relate Their Productivity to Technology…
It’s all work, work, work claim workaholic bosses as 82%
of bosses can’t switch their mind off work.
Date: Tuesday 9 August 2005
UK law firm Peninsula is behind the most recent survey warning that failure to unwind, relax and the inability to have a release from work has a dire effect on employers' work performance and motivation…
British workers giving their all
Date: Wednesday 3 August 2005
The 'long hours culture' of British office workers shows no sign of letting up according to a global workplace study released today. Research from Esselte, the UK's leading office supplier, reveals that more than a quarter (27%) of Brits are working longer than 50 hours a week…
CIPD Shows Employers
How to ‘ Flex’ their
Workforce
Date: Tuesday 2 August 2005
Flexible working practices are key to balancing the needs of business with the needs of employees, says the The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in its recent publication ‘Flexible Working’…
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