Employee motivation: Flexible working not on the cards for London 2012, says research

Date: 05/07/2011

Employee motivation could take a dip next summer after research has revealed that half of employers will not allow flexible time for the Olympics.

Just ten per cent of employers surveyed by the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) said that they will allow flexible working for staff during the London 2012 Games.

This has led the CIPP to predict that employers will face record levels of sickness.

Diana Bruce, senior policy liaison officer at the CIPP, said: "Although employees have the right to request it, they do not have the right to receive it.

"For an employee to be granted flexible working they will need to have worked at their organisation for at least 26 weeks and not to have made any previous requests for flexible working in the past 12 months."

Recently, Peter Thomson, director of research at the Telework Association, recommended flexible working as it helps staff cope with outside work pressures as well as reducing commutes.

Posted by Elizabeth Mewes 

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