Each year, the flexible working landscape continues to change. More and more employees demand a better work-life balance and although businesses have tried to adapt and improve it for their staff, has there actually been a noticeable change?
We went out to discover what the flexible working landscape looks like now and how far businesses still have to go to meet their employee’s requests.
Here are the insights for flexible working in 2017:
So from our flexible working survey, we found that:
So there you have it. As you can see from our flexible working statistics, it’s still a huge priority in our work-life as 67% wish they were offered it and 47% don’t have it encouraged, and even 40% of people would choose it over a pay rise. Although we have made progress (with 58% of workers being offered flexible working), there is still room to grow.
With an astounding 70% of workers strongly believing that flexible working would make a job more attractive to them, if employers plan on hiring top talent, flexible working is an imperative. Employees continue to demand improvements in their work-life balance and when flexible working can bridge that gap, what’s to stop them?
After all… 58% of people believe that working away from the office would help them become more motivated, and 53% feel that they would be more productive if they would work outside the office.
See our stats from our 2019 survey here.