• Royal Air Force, Highly Commended 2016, The American Express Best Flexible Working Initiative Award

  Key features New leave options that demonstrate a real commitment to flexibility in the armed forces, traditionally a difficult environment for flexibility to work. Introduction of the ability to swap, enhance or bring forward leave, enabling personnel to take their leave in a pattern that suits them and their family. To date 496 service personnel…

• Cisco, Winner 2016, The American Express Best Flexible Working Initiative Award

  Key features Cisco is leveraging their latest technology to drive employee mobility and flexibility in the company. Employees who work flexibly give back 60 per cent of reduced commute time to Cisco; employees personally save approximately £700 per year on commuting costs and those who work flexibly are 22 per cent more likely to be…

• West Dunbartonshire Council – Winner 2016 The Carers Scotland Best for Carers and Eldercare Award

  Family Friendly working dovetails into the Council’s “Be the Best” strategy. This creates a working environment where employees can excel, and supports the organisation’s key ambitions.

• Scottish Parliament – Highly Commended 2016 The Fathers Network Scotland Best for all Stages of Fatherhood Award

  The parliament recognise the importance of fathers at all stages - from before the arrival of a new baby, when they return to work following parental leave, and as they go through each life stage.

• American Express, Commended 2015, The Centrica Best for Flexible Working Award

  American Express (AmEx) has taken a multi-stranded approach to ensuring flexible working is, as it suggests, “embedded into its very DNA”. It is clearly outlined in formal policies, and accompanying leader guides have been created to support the implementation and understanding of these policies. Training on how to manage flexible working requests is also available…

• DLA Piper, Finalist 2015, The Santander Best New Flexible Working Initiative

  DLA Piper’s initiative has given a real boost to flexibility by rebranding and relaunching it as ‘agile working’. In particular, DLA Piper has focused on career progression,  often a challenge for flexible workers, through the use of job-sharing supported by clever use of technology. For the rebrand, the  firm developed two guides: one for employees…

• Cafcass, Winner 2015, The Centrica Best for Flexible Working Award

  Cafcass (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) is a non-departmental public body that safeguards and promotes the welfare of children; gives advice to family courts; makes provision for children to be represented; and provides information, advice and support to children and their families. Cafcass has undergone a wholesale transformation; in 2010 the Public…

• Barclays Bank, Finalist 2015, The Santander Best New Flexible Working Initiative

  Barclays has made its belief in flexible working real through a wholesale commitment to change. Its year-long Dynamic Working Campaign (DWC),  developed in 2014, recognised that people have many roles throughout each life stage, at home and at work, and need time, flexibility and energy to fulfil them all. DWC has developed a culture where…

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Finalist 2015, The DTCC Best for Innovation Award

  The Projects Task Force (PTF) was set up in 2012 in response to a need for greater flexibility in dealing with emerging priorities and a belief that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) was not maximising the benefits of staff looking to work atypically (part-time or remotely). The organisation saw this as an opportunity to…

• EY, Finalist 2015, The Santander Best New Flexible Working Initiative

  Professional Services firm EY recognised that introducing flexible working was more about a change in culture than a change in policy or legislation. For that reason EY engaged a Working Families Change Management and Optimal Performance specialist to design and deliver an internal  programme of behavioural and operation change. The change programme, designed to scale…

• National Assembly for Wales, Finalist 2015, The Centrica Best for Flexible Working Award

  Flexibility has been embedded within the National Assembly for Wales through the creation of the ‘People Strategy’ which stresses the need for the Assembly to be exemplar and leader of best practice, especially in the way it acts as an employer. Employees have access to a range of flexible working options, including; flexible working hours,…

• UK Civil Service, Finalist 2015, The Santander Best New Flexible Working Initiative Award

  Civil Service Resourcing and the Civil Service Job Share Working Group have developed an online tool which allows all civil servants to identify and contact each other when looking for a job-share partnership. The aim is to uphold the Civil Service’s commitment to being a flexible employer and to increase the number of staff finding…