• Holiday Extras, Finalist 2017, The Cross River Partnership Best Flexible Working Initiative Award

  Extended its flexible working scheme Anywhere Anytime to give complete flexibility to the team. Under Anywhere, Anytime+ employees can work wherever and whenever they want as long as their objectives are delivered and they are contactable. Managers trained and given autonomy to make agreements that are right for their team and the business. All team…

• AB World Foods, Finalist 2017, The Cross River Partnership Best Flexible Working Initiative Award

  The ‘Summer Hours’ initiative was introduced to enable employees to go home early on a Friday in the summer months. In return for working extra hours Monday-Thursday, employees can finish work from 12.30pm on Friday, allowing them more flexibility in the traditional holiday period. Initially introduced as a trial, it received excellent feedback and was…

• Civil Service, Commended 2017, Best Public Sector Employer Award

  The Civil Service has shown consistent leadership and innovation in flexible working and inclusion. In total, 24 per cent of employees work part-time and many others work flexibly in some way – such as home working, term time working or compressed hours. Managers are trained on flexible working and job sharing is actively supported –…

• Sky, Commended 2017, The Best Large Private Sector Employer Award

  Sky has worked hard to challenge myths about flexible working and 90 per cent of the organisation works on a flexible basis. The culture focuses on employee performance instead of desk time and is committed to helping employees achieve their personal goals and work-life balance. Leaders have begun to talk about flexibility and promote the…

• Anglia Ruskin University, Commended 2017, The Allen & Overy Innovation Award

  Anglia Ruskin University’s formation of a Part-Time and Flexible Working Forum in response to employee concerns about work-life balance was noted by the judges. The forum has worked to improve career development for flexible workers, promote the benefits of flexible working to reluctant line managers and generally display the organisation’s commitment to flexibility. Evidence from…

• Inspiring Scotland, Winner 2017, Best Third Sector Employer

  Uses flexibility to compete with the salaries offered by larger organisations Flexibility is proactively offered and is the norm Employees are encouraged to suggest new ways of working The judges were impressed by the way Inspiring Scotland uses time to compete with private sector organisations offering bigger salaries. Its flexible culture attracts and retains high…

• Dulas, Winner 2017, The Deloitte Best for all stages of Motherhood Award

  100 per cent retention rate for mothers five years after the birth of their first child All requests for flexibility approved Mothers make up two-thirds of the senior management team Engineering firm Dulas is bucking the trend in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, medicine and mathematics) businesses, with its extremely successful retention strategies for new mothers…

• Turn IT On, Winner 2017, The Direct Line Group Best for Embedded Flexibility Award

  Managers act as role models in their use of flexible working and shared parental leave Options to work flexibly are actively promoted Performance of flexible workers monitored to ensure their work is fairly recognised ICT support business Turn IT On actively recruits staff to work flexibly, innovating to support those who work in non-traditional ways.…

• FanDuel – Highly Commended 2017 Top Scottish Employers for Working Families

  FanDuel’s ethos is based on productivity and a good work-life balance. If employees can do a job from a different location or within different hours, every situation is treated individually to assess if the company can support it

• Inspiring Scotland

  Flexible and family friendly working makes business sense to Inspiring Scotland. It is intrinsic to its company values and as such is mentioned explicitly in the recruitment stage.

• NHS Lothian – Highly Commended 2017 Scottish Top Employers

  Carers are actively encouraged to discuss their caring responsibilities with their line manager, and managers are asked to consider who in their team may have a caring role out-with the workplace and offer appropriate support.

• Lloyds Banking Group – Winner 2017 Scottish Top Employers (large private sector)

  Family friendly working is in Lloyds Banking Group’s (LBG) DNA.