Flexible working and parental policies

摘要

HLM has a forward-looking and proactive approach to flexible working that allows space for family life. To combat stress, absence and low productivity, HLM introduced its agile working scheme, which includes the option of a nine-day fortnight. This integrates part-time, job-sharing, compressed/changed hours, subcontracting, homeworking, hot-desking, fixed contracts and phased retirements. It also includes sabbaticals, career breaks, maternity and paternity leave and phased returns to work, and is carefully monitored. The practice has invested more than £700,000 on technology to help make remote working successful. HLM says it recognises that younger employees are not only looking for a workplace but a life experience. The firm also has a wide-ranging lifestyle benefits package.