Stockport accountancy firm hosts hybrid working webinar

As businesses prepare for the end of Covid-19 restrictions, Stockport accountancy firm, Hallidays, will host a webinar for Stockport businesses to consider a future of hybrid office and home-based working.

With the 19th July ‘Freedom Day’ approaching, join Hallidays HR Director Liz Chiva (pictured) for a webinar, ‘Is Hybrid Working the Future?’ on Monday 12th July, 9:30 – 10:30am.

With lockdown forcing many people to work from home or an altered pattern of work, Covid-19 has turned the way we work on its head. With long commutes and a Meal Deal for lunch now distant memories for many, talk is turning to a ‘new normal’ where flexible working becomes commonplace for many businesses and organisations.

The pandemic has shown that, in the case of flexible work design, the impossible turns out to be possible after all. The enforced trial of homeworking has demonstrated to many that it works better than they could have imagined, and perceived barriers have faded away as businesses have learned to design work differently. Looking to the future, 87% of participants in a CIPD employer survey said that they planned to introduce or expand the use of hybrid working to some degree – combining time in the workplace with time at home, depending on the needs of the job, the individual, the team, and the team working practices.

In an interactive webinar to support businesses with policies and procedures to create the right working environment, Liz will be discussing the opportunities and challenges of hybrid working, focusing on:

• What are the options available and how do we decide which model to go with? What’s the impact?
• Do we get our employees involved in this decision making or can we just tell them what to do?
• Are there contractual implications?  Do we need to consult?
• Could redundancy apply if we close or move offices?
• Will there be Working Time Regulation considerations?
• Will we need to pay additional expenses to those working from home?
• Will there be additional travel costs?
• Do we need a hybrid working policy?
• Can we implement it on a trial basis?
• Can we retract hybrid working from all/some?
• How will performance be managed?
• How will employee mental wellbeing be impacted?
• How do we ensure IT security and data protection?
• What are the legal risks?

To answer all of these questions and more, book your place on the webinar by clicking here.