Corporate event management: Flexible working has green benefits as well as boosting staff performance

Date: 27/06/2011

Flexible working seems to be a hot topic for businesses at the moment, so why not discuss how it could work for your company during corporate conferences.

Figures from the CBI/Harvey Nash Employment Trends Survey recently showed that almost all businesses (96 per cent) offer a form of flexible working to their staff, so if you're not one then you're firmly in the minority.

Those who do offer flexible working agree that there are a range of benefits, including improved employee relations (almost three-quarters), boosting retention (61 per cent) improved staff performance (37 per cent) and fewer absences (38 per cent).

And according to Peter Thomson, director of research at the Telework Association, more workers are seeing the green benefits of flexible working – which businesses could also discuss at corporate conferences.

"There is now a generation coming in and saying various old habits that applied in the past don't need to apply now.

"Add to that this is a generation who are green-conscious, who are taught environmental studies at school, and are quite rightly saying 'Hang on – you, my parents' generation, have polluted the planet. I'd like to do something about it, and let's start with all this stupid travel that we're doing.' "

Posted by Elizabeth Mewes 

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