Cardiff Council is aiming to leverage some of the benefits of enabling its employees to operate more flexibly as part of a new smarter working plan.

Research from Microsoft has suggested that employers should embrace the potential benefits offered by flexible working arrangements and allow staff to work from home to improve their productivity.

Senior management staff at companies across London are increasingly leveraging the benefits of more flexible working practices, according to a recent study.

As the UK heads towards enabling a more mobile workforce, thousands of Britons plan to keep in touch with their office over the course of the bank holiday weekend, according to a recent report.

The not-for-profit orgnaisation Work Wise UK has outlined its plans for a quality mark scheme that will give recognition to British businesses that are successfully moving towards enabling a flexible workforce.

Global telecoms firm BT has revealed that a range of flexible working technology has seen it reduce its contribution to carbon emissions by around 97,000 tonnes.

Technology experts working for companies across the UK are backing the growing trend towards creating a more flexible workforce, according to reports.

Boosting the number of people in the UK who carry out their jobs from home would help ease the country’s congestion concerns, one expert has made clear.

Employees who operate from their homes often do more work than their office-based counterparts because they want to avoid being labelled as a skiver, it has been claimed.

Businesses that offer flexible working options can expect to improve their recruitment performance, as well as their workforce’s motivation and productivity, according to the general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Brendan Barber.