The importance of asking
Welcome to another Flexible Success newsletter. Each edition includes a tip, a quote, a question and an interesting read - all related to flexible work. It's designed to be quick and easy to digest, and to provide you with some food for thought for the week ahead.
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A TIP
As we all take part in the grand flexible working experiment of the present day, organisations are very quickly learning that flexible working practices designed and implemented from the top down are unlikely to succeed.
This is partly because there is a big disconnect between what executives want from flexible woking vs what other employees want. For example, a research group backed by Slack has found that executives are more than twice as likely to want to get back to the office full time than their employees.
It's also becuase flexible working is all about helping individuals adapt the way they work to suit their unique circumstances. Which means it's impossible to design work practices that do this without finding out what these individuals need!
A QUOTE
‘The very best [employers] are engaging their people in designing what the future of work looks like, experimenting and adjusting policies as they go.'
– Roland Wee, MD of Great Place to Work
A QUESTION
Do you know what kind of flexibility each of your team members need most, to support them be their best at work and in the rest of their lives?
AN INTERESTING READ
This article on Australia's Great Places to Work for 2022 provides some interesting insights on the increasing importance of workplace flexibility, with case studies from Atlassian and SafetyCulture.
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