Thank you for contacting me about flexible working. Flexible working patterns can be mutually beneficial to the employer and the employee, helping attract and retain a workforce, increasing productivity and reducing costs.
While we continue to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, many businesses which have previously never adopted flexible working have been forced to adopt new arrangements. This has included remote working, using new technology for work, or finding new ways of working. I hope that this exposure will have enabled employers to see first hand the benefits of flexible working, and I imagine that this could have a significant effect on working arrangements in the future post-Coronavirus.
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