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Interesting stories on remote working from aroud the web.
Vaillant, a leading manufacturer of gas and solid fuel domestic heating appliance boilers, called for Interchange’s help to install the latest GPRS mobile technology to enhance and develop its service and support business even further.
The solution helped out the company’s national service organisation Heatcall, which provides after sales support through it team of 100 engineers.
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UK engineering firms are being forced to take flexible working seriously as they are finding it harder to attract staff, according to an industry survey by engineering consultancy firm, Atkins. The survey reveals that 48 % of firms are now offering flexible working and 50% home working, along with up to 40 days annual leave. Continue reading…
There is a thought provoking article in IT Week (17 June) which asks ‘Is remote working just an idle fantasy?’ which businesses already operating remotely or thinking of doing so, may want to read.
It follows research commissioned by Microsoft, and may therefore carry a commercial bias, and predicts that remote working is declining, which the author, Daniel Robinson, finds ‘illuminating’, taken that this, we are told, is something which we all aspire to.
The research says that employees prefer to be seen in the office, even if they are more productive working at home, to prevent them from being first in the firing line, should their employer have to make redundancies
Following a meeting of European employment ministers, the UK has secured a deal to opt out from the Working Time Directive. This means that the UK is to keep its exemption which allows employees to work more than 48 hours a week, with a review of the opt-out set in the next 8 years.
According to the TUC around 3.3 million people in the UK work more than 48 hours a week and the government states that this agreement allows continued flexibility in the UK labour market, providing a fair deal for workers without causing damage to Britain’s economic competitveness or putting jobs at risk.
