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Flexible working: lessons from the great work-from-home mass experiment

  • Written by Jane Parry, Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and HRM, University of Southampton
Flexible working: lessons from the great work-from-home mass experimentThe right to flexible work should be extended to all employees from the start of their contracts. Vera Petrunina/Shutterstock

For years, politicians and employers alike have talked up the promise of flexible working. And it looked like change was happening.

Last year, the UK government announced a consultation around whether flexible work should not...