Hybrid headaches | 42% of managers don't know their company's flexible working policy. Do you?

42% of HR managers are not tracking their flexible or hybrid working policies, according to new research. Now, before you gasp too much in shock, here’s a question: What’s your company’s flexible working policy?

The research by campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed surveyed 260 HR Managers and found just 41.8% of HR managers shared that they do not monitor the impact of a flexible working/ hybrid policy at all. And just 40% of HR Managers said that they have had training for supporting teams in a hybrid working world.

The flexible working bill recieved royal assent in June 2023, and the official description of the Flexible Working Bill reads: A Bill to make provision in relation to the right of employees and other workers to request variations to particular terms and conditions of employment, including working hours, times and locations.

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Joeli Brearley, CEO and Founder of Pregnant Then Screwed said: “A lack of flexible working is bad for business and bad for inclusivity. Time and time again, research has shown that flexible working has many benefits, but if employers don’t track it then they can’t make impactful and data-driven decisions about where and when their employees work, and they are more likely to revert to less impactful conventional ways of working. We need to start taking flexible working seriously.’’