{"id":239,"date":"2011-02-06T21:16:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2011-02-06T21:16:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:16:51","slug":"staff-stays-motivated-with-flexible-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/06\/staff-stays-motivated-with-flexible-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff stays motivated with flexible options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies are more likely to retain their staff for long if they offer more flexible options, such as working from home, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>A survey of almost 700 employees by recruitment firm Hays found that majority of people think that flexible working improved work-life balance, often taking it into account when choosing a job.<\/p>\n<p>Over one-third of public sector staff said their employer encouraged flexible working, compared with just 18 per cent in private firms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Employers and their staff see flexible working policies as a positive move but more needs to be done to make sure these are implemented in the workplace,&#8221; the Scotsman quoted Charles Logan, director at Hays, as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our research indicates that employers offer flexible working options to support their employees, with a comparatively small number saying they adopt flexible working simply to conform to current legislation,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: &#8220;The right to request flexible working is not only proving popular with employees, this survey shows it offers business benefits such as better morale and staff retention.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies are more likely to retain their staff for long if they offer more flexible options, such as working from home, according to a new report. A survey of almost 700 employees by recruitment firm Hays found that majority of people think that flexible working improved work-life balance, often taking it into account when choosing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}