Mobile working is an important factor for mothers, according to new research.A poll from Workingmums.co.uk, a jobs website dedicated to working mothers, found that 79 per cent of respondents said they need jobs with some degree of flexibility. Over half of those mothers surveyed said they wanted some form of home working from their employer, while 85 per cent claimed that offering home working for full time jobs made for a "family friendly employer".
Gillian Nissim, founder of Workingmums.co.uk, said the results show that "flexible working is top of the working mums' agenda and will not go away. It is the key issue that employers must grapple with if they want to retain the kind of skills offered by working mums," she added.
"The recession has not reduced the urgency of this issue for working parents and employers who want to be prepared for the eventual upturn in the economy would do well to listen to their voices rather than risk losing them to more forward-thinking rivals."
APA passionately supports the call for greater flexibility in employment regimes; especially for PAs. In it own recent survey of Business Leaders it is claimed that few PAs currently have access to home working time, despite the realisation that much of what needs to be done could be achieved better and faster without the distractions of a modern office. APA backs a call for ‘clear-thinking time’; a period when people can get away from the immediacy of emails, phone calls and the office chit-chat to do some serious workload planning and catch up.
Gareth, APA
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