- Senior leadership buy-in - this is essential for embedding a flexible culture. Senior leaders not only have to grasp the business case for flexible working and promote it, but be seen to be working flexibly themselves.
- Training - top employers recognise the need to support managers around the implementation of flexible working and develop a culture where people are judged on meeting their targets rather than presenteeism.
- Looking at flexible working as a whole culture issue rather than as something that is granted to individuals on an ad hoc basis. This will include looking at real estate, IT support and the like.
- Involving people from the grassroots up through networks and champions who embed the flexible working culture and take on board and respond to employee concerns.
- Promoting flexible working internally and externally and ensuring flexible working applies from the recruitment stages right through to senior management.
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