Employers who offer the option of
homeworking often say that it improves staff retention and productivity.
For the preliminary data collection, an interview session was carried out to explore the data on
homeworking in QS firms.
She said: "The sheer scale of
homeworking proves how easily it can be done, but there are still too many employers reluctant to allow staff to work away from the office or the shop floor.
The polices of local authorities vary, but generally, planning permission will not be needed if the primary purpose of the person's home is still residential and if the
homeworking does not cause disruption or nuisance, for example, it is not noisy and does not disturb neighbours.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is also a key board concern, and
homeworking is one way that organisations can make a contribution to the employment prospects of, for example, disabled people as well as provide work for other disadvantaged groups.
There are reportedly three main types of scam
homeworking scheme.
While she acknowledges that studies have found negative outcomes of
homeworking by full-timers or the self-employed, her own study concludes that having a hybrid home-workplace arrangement was generally evaluated positively by both management and employees.
Kwik-Fit Financial Services offer a range of flexible working benefits including compressed hours, job share and
homeworking, as well as the ability to buy extra holidays and a generous maternity package.
Homeworking, job sharing and other flexible working patterns are becoming the norm at the banking group.
Homeworking is one of several new ideas being tried by the council to cope with the workload of 23, 000 claimants in the borough who receive pounds 70m in benefits each year.
An alliance of the TUC, Oxfam, and the National Group on
Homeworking wants all existing employment rights to be extended to homeworkers, agency and casual workers.
The Midland bosses behind one of the biggest ever UK
homeworking scams could face huge confiscation orders.