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In the UK, various government policies officially aimed at supporting employees to manage both their family and work responsibilities have been introduced over the last two decades.
Indeed, the current coalition government has extended the right to request flexible working further to all employees, meaning that employers now have a duty to consider all requests in a reasonable manner.
This sounds good in theory but…
It is how this is applied within organisations in practice that actually impacts whether ‘flexible working’ has a positive or negative impact on employees, organisations, and society as a whole.
