Flexibilities in work, which allow staff to maintain a better work-life balance are unevenly available across the workforce; this much has been clear fo some time.
The Q. is: can flexibilities be easily introduced into site-based work (where working from home is not a possibility)?
And, how can we avoid the solution merely be worse (zero-hour) contracts that while helping employers' flexibility, do so at the cost of workers' security & life-stability?
#workers
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jan/27/inequality-in-flexible-working-dividing-britain-into-two-tier-workforce
Emeritus Prof Christopher May /
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