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The latest news covering working time issues
Articles are regularly added to this page to help you keep abreast of the issues and complexities of managing working time.
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
“ Rethinking working time does not do away with the difficulties. It makes those difficulties more manageable.”
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