Flexible Working and Home Working
Flexible working and home working often overlap, but they solve different employment issues and use different documents.
This section helps employers find the right template for each situation, whether an employee is making a formal flexible working request or an agreed home working arrangement needs to be put in place and managed properly.
Flexible Working Requests
The Flexible Working Policy and Documents section is for handling requests to change working hours, working patterns, or place of work.
It includes a policy and a practical set of letters covering the main stages of the process, including acknowledgement, decisions, refusals, appeals, and cases where the employee is not eligible to make a request.
This is the right place to start where an employee wants to work part time, term time, flexi-time, or under another adjusted working pattern.
Home Working Arrangements
The Home Working Policy and Documents section is for employers putting formal home working arrangements in place.
These documents cover the wider practical and contractual issues that come with working from home, including communication, equipment, insurance, security, data protection, and health and safety.
It is particularly useful where home working will be a regular arrangement rather than just an occasional informal practice.
Find the Right Documents Faster
Use this section when you need documents for either:
- an employee’s request to change how, when, or where they work; or
- the terms, policies, and risk management needed for home working.
In short, the flexible working documents help you deal with the request. The home working documents help you manage the arrangement once working from home is part of the role.
Flexible Working and Home Working is part of Employment. Just £38.50 + VAT provides unlimited downloads from Employment for 1 year.