Juggling your personal and professional lives can be tricky no matter your age, but new research from recruitment firm PageGroup claims employees in Wales have got their work-life priorities right.
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In a UK-wide study of 1,000 office workers, Welsh workers placed the most importance on flexible working – with 3 in 4 (76%) citing it as important to them today, and 87% claiming it will be even more so in the next five years (the highest figures in the UK).
Additional key findings for Wales include:
– 69% expect to be offered flexible working as standard in any job they do
– Yet… only 28% work from home at least once a week
– 77% of those that don’t work from home, say they are not able/not allowed to
– 46% have felt judged or penalized for working flexibly
– 2 in 10 (22%) have been actively refused flexible working
– 1 in 2 believe flexible working is reserved for senior employees or those with families (51%)
Wales aside, the study – which set out to shed light on the reality of flexible working across the UK – reveals the disappointingly low bar set for nationwide flexible working standards, in an age where the expectation of flexibility is the new normal.
All regional findings will be presented in an interactive heatmap – which will go live with the data on Monday – comparing just how flexible ‘flexible working’ really is for key areas across the UK. Embed link available upon request.
