Flexible Working Bombshell!!

UK ministers are considering giving all employees the right to ask for flexible working hours “from the beginning” of a new job as part of plans to encourage a fundamental shift in working habits. Yvette Cooper seems to have dropped any softly-softly approach to reforming the British labour market and dropped a big one on [...]

We must be bonkers!

In total UK workers spend 21.8m hours travelling to and from work every day, with £266m-worth of working time lost to travel each day. Workers spend on average 52.6 minutes commuting every day, but London workers have the longest commute, averaging 78 minutes, followed by workers in the South East who travel for 56.4 minutes [...]