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 news JOB CANDIDATES PREFER SMARTER WORKING ORGANISATIONS

Two recent surveys commissioned by Croner highlighted some interesting results on what potential job candidates look for in an employer. More than a third listed flexible working as an important consideration in their job search for that 'perfect employer'. For more information click here

 

 news FATAL FRIDAY PHENOMENON

Should road users think twice about their commuting on a Friday?
Road users will be more at risk of an accident on a Friday than on any other day of the week, especially now that the clocks have gone back. Known as 'Fatal Friday Phenomenon', statistics show that more accidents happen on a Friday, and particularly between the hours of 4pm and 6pm, than at any other time. MORE
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London has the UK's Largest Growth in Home Working

Thursday May 15th was National Work from Home Day when up to five million people are estimated to have worked from home across the UK.

According to TUC research, London has seen the number of people working from home grow by 43 per cent in the last decade, the highest growth rate in the UK.

Over 450,000 workers - 12.7 per cent of the regional working population - are now based at or usually work from home. If figures for employed people who are normally or permanently based at home, but not self-employed, are analysed, London has seen a massive 55 per cent increase over the same period, the second highest growth rate in the UK. MORE

 

WORK WISE LONDON LAUNCHED - Helping to Create a Smarter Working Capital
Download the Agenda (pdf) HERE.

Read our Work Wise London Positioning Document (pdf) HERE.

Download the Smarter Working Guide (pdf) HERE.

View our Press Release (pdf) HERE. 

Read the Economist Sustainability Report (pdf) HERE.

 

London Becomes the Second Region in the UK to Launch a Work Wise Initiative
Work Wise London aims to encourage a greater take up of smarter working practices across the capital, providing a more modern and flexible approach to work to increase business productivity and competitiveness, reduce pollution, improve health, assist disadvantaged groups and harmonise our work and family commitments.
Guests from over 50 major organisations, both private and public, attended the launch to hear details of the first task to be undertaken by Work Wise London, which will be market research to find out the current level of smarter and flexible working across the capital. To be undertaken jointly with London First and the London Chamber of Commerce, the research hopes to glean information about what are perceived as the current barriers to the take up of smarter working, and what needs to be done in order to achieve a greater adoption.

London has always been a global business centre. It is one of the main financial centres in the world, and the base for many global businesses, and its GDP is larger than that of many nations. The Mayor's Economic Development Strategy for London (EDS) sets the vision and actions for strong, long term economic growth, which can be sustained for future generations and where people and the environment are protected and cared for. Smarter working will help the Mayor achieve this, but London has a particular issue, one that everyone is familiar with, and that is transport.

Work Wise London has been established by a number of London's leading organisations. The 'vanguard group' includes BT, Taylor Woodrow and Transport for London, with announcements of several others expected in the coming months.