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Experts have urged British businesses to use available technology to make working remotely from home more feasible, allowing employees to have a better work-life balance.
From today, parents of children who are 16 or under will be eligible to claim flexible working rights in their job.
This means that an extra 4.5 million parents will be given flexible working rights, with the government change in legislation leading to over 10 million people being able to make changes to their usual 9 to 5 working day.
An increase in the numbers of UK workers who have access to flexible working could impact companies whose IT systems are not set up for remote access.
Currently around six million parents and carers have the right to request flexible working from their employers but this has now been extended to include another 4.5 million parents of children aged 16 and under.
B&Q has been a long-time advocate of flexible working, as well as a diverse workforce, and is a finalist in the Innovation of Flexible Working category. A quarter of the workforce is over the age of 50, with a similar number under 25. These groups are identified as most in need of flexible working arrangements.
B&Q has introduced policies such as term-time contracts for parents and grandparents, an online job share register and the facility for older workers to reduce their hours and draw final-salary pensions at the same time.
Parenting charities have hit back at business owners who want to delay the legal right to request flexible working to parents with children under 16.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is concerned that the new law will harm small firms by making them unable to retain or employ extra staff and are urging the government to hold off passing it. However, parents have welcomed the legislation and have told the Family and Parenting Institute (FPI) that they want to work flexibly.
