Flexibility regarding where and when work is completed is becoming increasingly available to employees, especially following the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent shift in the nature of work.
Flexible working arrangements can help employees maintain their health. Research demonstrates that flexible work arrangements are associated with:
- better physical and psychological health
- reduced absenteeism
- reduced work-family conflict
- job satisfaction.
Resources
Flexible working arrangements | Fair Work Ombudsman
This best practice guide is for managers and employers. It explains the advantages of taking a best practice approach to flexible working arrangements. It also has practical tips and case studies to help you move your business towards best practice.
Flexibility | Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment
Flexible working arrangements can take many forms including part-time work, job-share, or purchased leave. This site provides information and a number of resources to support for public sector employees.
Work life balance | SafeWork SA
Work life balance is about individual choices that enable businesses and workers to manage the interaction between work and the demands of life that affect health, families and communities. This site explains the benefits of flexible work arrangements for both workers and businesses and provides a simple five step process to implementation.
Flexible work resources | Curtin University’s Future of Work Institute
Evidence-based and practical resources that inform and enhance the experience of flexible working. The resources provide strategies for employees, teams, and managers to maximise the benefits and reduce the risks of flexible work, and thereby help to support businesses, government, and not-for-profit agencies.
Enabling wellbeing through flexible work | Swinburne University of Technology
This resource provides practical guidance to organisations in their journey towards implementing flexible working practices to support employee wellbeing.
A best practice guide for flexible and work-from-home arrangement | Centre of Work Health and Safety (nsw.gov.au)
This guide provides practical advice to enhance flexible worker wellbeing. The guide walks you through the seven elements that combine to build a psychologically safe and productive work environment for flexible workers and support primary preventative action.