Work is moving away from the traditional 5 days a week in an office and companies that don't take advantage of this are missing an opportunity to access skilled and talented staff and holding their business back.

1. The Revolution in the Way
We Work
Sarah Matthews
Associate, Workpond
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2. What does ‘flexible working’
mean to you?
mean to you?
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3. The cost of full time only
• Unnecessarily high salary bill
• Failing to match the needs of the
business with staffing requirements
• Missing out on skilled, talented and
experienced staff
• Untapped opportunities and back boiler
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4. Who is this?
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5. 'When you are chairman, you go
where the issues are. That's a much
more effective way of managing
yourself than managing time. It's
heads, not clocks, that create time
pressures'
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6. ‘I’d rather employ 4
women that work 4
days a week than 4
men that work 5
days a week’
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7. Factors driving flexible working
• Technology
• Population growth
• Increasing retirement age
• Individuals becoming carers for family
• Family structure is changing
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8. The flexible working market
• 9 million economically inactive 18-64
year olds in the UK
• Represents 22.4% of 18-64 year olds
• Approximately 2 million are voluntarily
inactive - 1/2 million women
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9. Barriers to employers:
• Locked into fixed way of working
• Planning
• Evaluation of business needs - staff
• Fear of lack of ‘control’
• Difficult to find skilled ‘non-full-timers’
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10. Workpond
An on-line, cost effective talent pool for:
•Experience professionals
•Part-time, interim, flexible, project roles
•No agencies - direct only
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11. Next steps....
• Recruitment of skilled part timers - Amanda
Seabrook, Founder, Workpond
• Evaluation of skill and time requirements for
back boiler projects/untapped opportunities -
Sarah Matthews, SFM Consulting
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