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These modern working methods present employers with opportunity:

to retain staff,

reduce costs

increase productivity,

but not without meeting the challenge to overcome convenience of a standard office-based working day.

What is it all about?

Significant change in technology has made it easier to deliver the benefits to business seamlessly. 

Working with Mike Court, who heads up Conexus International, an international management development consultancy based in Droitwich, whose clients include BT, O2, Hoover and KPMG, has led us to believe that we have developed a very interesting approach to overcome reluctance to deal with home working issues.   

Looking at this from the perspectives of Individual, Manager and Technology, we will help you through workshops and web-based questionnaires, to evaluate your management team thinking to help you move forward.

The nine-to-fiver	Still the mainstay of many businesses, this worker or manager is bound by convention to the office with a commute at both ends of the day. New technology including video conferencing can make work more interesting. The cost of travel, expensive office rental and threat of congestion charging in all our towns and cities makes this an area well worth reviewing for massive potential savings. The Sunday Times Sarah Bridge says “Nine-to-fivers, your days are numbered: prepare to adapt top the shape of jobs to come”
Flexi or Flexible workers and Part-Timers	Allows an employee to work the hours the employer requires, full or part time in total, but perhaps starting after a school run, working through lunch, leaving early. Family support means many women (and some men) can arrange a schedule to suit the times they need to be available for the home. Today’s technology, specifically providing an extension on the latest office phone systems and video conferencing, offer the greatest opportunity to retain key skills, albeit for shortened hours, to give the individual a continuing career and the business continuing trained staff. Flexible working suits individuals with other interests that need their attention at particular times of the day. Caring for relatives may just mean a longer lunch hour, arriving early and leaving early and leaving early.
Flexible working – the Job sharer	Some roles need continuity throughout the working day and this solution often meets the business management needs better than simply allowing one employee to drop their hours.
Mobile working and The Road Warrior	Going to see a customer, supplier; going to court if you are a solicitor; delivering, installing servicing commercially; holding meetings away from offices. Ad hoc working at home or elsewhere, preparing for a presentation of some sort – court for a solicitor – in quiet space or just away from the office. If it happens more than once a month you are trespassing – see home working below. The traditional impression is of only the sales person. Rushing back to the office to file orders and reports has been replaced by highly effective mobile systems getting smaller than the laptop. As every working role becomes more complex and every business demands availability of information as soon as it’s received, service fleets, technical and senior managers are all able to take advantage of technology to complete their activities in the working day and spend evenings with the family instead.
Home Working	Structurally devising a diary that requires home-working on a regular, organised basis for some or part of the week. This can be offer huge cost reduction; it is also recognised as a life-changing way to up productivity 60%, beat congestion and eliminate travel time. It needs technology that fits the person to make the distance working seamless for all concerned and that’s where we come in.
Portfolio Workers, freelance consultants and contractors	Got this term from the Sunday Times – This is an enterprise group whose members create their own career profile by juggling several roles, often on a freelance basis. The Sunday Times highlights the term “sunlighting” that describes people taking unpaid time off from one job to take paid work elsewhere. Many businesses don’t need an IT Director, Finance Director or Telecoms Director and networking groups are great places to find self-employed experts who will work for you and several other masters. The trick to make this successful is to implement communications technology that facilitates similar access to systems wherever the Portfolio worker happens to be to deal with urgent matters.
The sabbatical/career break	Unpaid leave permitted by an employer is one thing many employees don’t dare take up according to Angela Carter, occupational psychologist, reported in The Sunday Times.
University and Course working	University students at the start of their career now need to find lucrative employment to start the task of repaying £30,000 plus loans.