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    • Time to flex: Embracing flexible working
    • Executive summary
    • Introduction
    • Sector culture: flexible working and the challenges for charities
    • The need for flexibility
    • Talking flex: Top tips for employees from Working Families
    • Leading the way
    • Conclusion
    • Resources and contributors
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Time to flex: Embracing flexible working

Benefits and barriers in the voluntary sector

  • Becky Hewitt

Published: 10 February 2022

  • Foreword
    • Growing interest in flexible working
    • Starting the conversation
    • Acknowledgements
  • Executive summary
    • Key findings
    • Recommendations
  • Introduction
    • Pandemic momentum
    • Why does flexibility matter?
    • Ama Afrifa-Tchie
  • Sector culture: flexible working and the challenges for charities
    • Cause-led organisations
    • Size and funding
    • A lack of diversity
    • Teri Stephenson
  • The need for flexibility
    • Valuing people as individuals
    • Stigma and barriers
    • Putting it all on the individual
    • Inclusion
    • Wellbeing
    • Pip Gardner
  • Talking flex: Top tips for employees from Working Families
    • Marcus Wratten
  • Leading the way
    • Business planning and job design
    • Talent and opportunity
    • Avoiding a two-tier workforce
    • Lisa Freshwater
    • Building cultures of trust and empowerment
    • Role modelling from the top
    • The role of the trustee board
    • Support, education and inspiration for managers
    • Experimentation and innovation
    • Setting boundaries
    • Top barriers and myths for managers and how to overcome them
  • Conclusion
    • Recommendations
  • Resources and contributors
    • Reports and further reading
    • Resources
    • Methodology
    • Working group members
    • Expert interviewees
  • Download the full report

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