As you may have recently read, a study by researchers for the Cochrane Library found employees who had control of their hours could have better blood pressure and heart rates.
Regus have previously commented on the importance of flexibility within the work place after reporting that 48% of British workers have felt that their levels of stress have grown over the past two years.
Mark Dixon, CEO of Regus commented: “Stress in the workforce can provide companies with real problems: management and work productivity can be seriously impaired, motivation levels may be damaged, and conflict between colleagues can undermine professionalism. With any of these factors in play, companies will see damage to bottom-line commercial and financial results. At a time when firms are fighting to return to significant growth, we can see why managing stress becomes a crucial issue.
One of the most significant factors in reducing employees’ stress levels is helping them to maintain a healthy work-life balance. By implementing flexible workplace solutions, employers can offer employees the ability to work in whole or in part from home, have a hot-desk capability in multiple locations, or call on working facilities as needed. Many companies have found themselves facing diminishing revenues and a smaller workforce, but with no ability to flex their office cost commitments. Flexible solutions not only shake adherence to rigid commercial leasehold arrangements, but also allow firms to grow with considerably less stress for employee and employer alike.”
Flexible working practices, where employees are given the option to work part of their time from home, but can still gain access to flexible workplace solutions that offer hot desking, meeting rooms, office space facilities and so on, are becoming more popular.
Flexibility.co.uk is Europe’s leading online journal investigating new ways of working and tomorrow, Wednesday 24th February, they will be hosting a high profile seminar on Smart Working in London.
Smart Working is about taking a strategic and business-focused approach to flexible working, focussing on bringing all the benefits together – the benefits gained from changing working practices, deploying new technologies and creating new flexible working environments.
The goal of the Smart Working seminar is to create more flexible and efficient organisations and more motivated and productive teams, which is vital in the present economic climate.
But too often flexible working is seen too narrowly, maybe starting as a work-life balance initiative, property initiative or a technology initiative, and not bringing the benefits across the board. The key to real Smart Working is to pull these separate issues together to really maximise the benefits.
The Smart Working seminar takes a highly practical approach, showcasing examples of different approaches from organisations that are reaping substantial and measurable benefits.
Topics to be covered by expert speakers include:
Increasing efficiency through smarter working
Reducing property costs
Creating smart/flexible working environments
Aligning family-friendly measures with business benefits
Reducing the carbon impacts of working practices
Technologies for smart working
Setting objectives and measuring the benefits
Regus will be speaking at the event on flexible work environments and analysing the role of flexible office space for the smart organisation.
Places are limited so go to the Flexibility.co.uk booking form now to confirm your attendance and to start reaping the benefits of Smart Working.
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