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Boom in number of homeworkers

Date posted:

14th April 2008

More staff are enjoying the perks of choosing to work flexibly, according to one stakeholder.

An increasing number of businesses are offering staff the opportunity to work from home due to the benefits it offers, it has been claimed.

Chief executive of Work Wise UK Phil Flaxton said that the willingness of business to allow its employees to work flexibly has benefits for organisations as well as individuals.

"Some of the bigger organisations do provide an incentive to some of their staff to work from home. What they've seen are tremendous cost savings to the enterprise because they don't need so many buildings […] so to kit people out at home will increase," he said.

According to the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, the DTI flexible working employee survey found that 13 per cent of all employees have requested to work flexibly since the ability to do so was introduced.

Of this figure, 38 per cent asked to work part-time and 25 per cent requested to work on flexi-time.

A 2007 survey from insurance company Zurich found that almost one in 20 respondents spent more than 80 hours per month working from home.

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