Flexible Working (Michelle McGuigan)
Flexible Working (Ray Smith)
Work-Life Balance (Stuart Colmer)
Introduction to Work Wise North East (David Lennan) 
Work Wise North East Regional Launch(TUC)

The North East is the first region in the UK to stage a regional Work Wise initiative,

Work Wise North East, which will tailor the national Work Wise UK objectives and programme specifically to the North East, is being supported by all the key organisations in the region including:

• One NorthEast
• Government Office for the North East (GONE)
• CBI
• TUC
• North East Chamber of Commerce
• Federation of Small Businesses
• Northern Business Forum
• EEF Northern
• Women into the Network
• Workplace Travel Plan Company
• BT
• RBLI

The North East has seen the number of people working from home grow by over 56 per cent since 1999. Almost 50,000 workers - nearly 5 per cent of the working population - are now based at or regularly work from home. The region has seen nearly 17,000 new home workers since 1999, with Tyne and Wear experiencing the second largest level of growth in the UK at 1.8 per cent, almost twice the national average of 1.0 per cent. The UK average for home working is 5.1 percent of the working population, with 59.9 per cent of self-employed people working from home. The average split between the sexes is 69 per cent male to 31 per cent female.

The Work Wise North East programme of activities will be announced here shortly.