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More employers are offering staff flexible working as a job benefit. The latest Work-Life Balance Employer Survey, carried out on behalf of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), found that 95 per cent of those employers who responded would now consider requests from staff for flexible work patterns. Only 10 per cent of employers had refused requests. There has also been an increase in the number of firms that help staff with their family commitments. Some 18 per cent of workplaces now lay on childcare facilities or other similar arrangements, up from the 8 per cent recorded during the last survey in 2003. More male employees than ever are asking for flexible working, with 43 per cent of requests coming from men in the past two years. Pat McFadden, the minister for Employment Relations, said: “The way we work is changing and in many cases, it is changing to fit in with people’s lives. “More people want to balance work with family and lifestyle and more employers are increasingly recognising that flexibility helps retain good staff.” Mr McFadden added: “We have developed a staged approach for employees to request flexible working which is proving effective - from giving the right to request flexible working to parents with children under six on to carers of disabled children under 18 and adults. “As part of our new review of flexible working, we'll now be discussing the best way to extend the right to request to parents of older children - so that businesses, parents, carers and families can all benefit.” The survey also showed that part time working is available in 92 per cent of workplaces, up from 81 per cent in 2003; that employers offering reduced hours working had increased to 74 per cent, up from 40 per cent in 2003; and that employers offering compressed hours working had increased to 41 per cent from 19 per cent. |
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