Employees working from home
Introduction
Allowing staff to work at home on either a full or part-time basis can bring a range of business benefits - from increased productivity and greater staff motivation to more effective use of your premises.
Home working also widens the base from which you can recruit, boosting your chances of recruiting successfully.
The spread of home working - using the internet or telephone - is opening up a new range of possibilities for the way businesses can work and structure themselves.
As well as opportunities, home working brings new responsibilities for the employer and employee. For example, flexible-working regulations mean you now have to seriously consider requests to work from home from employees with parental responsibility of children aged 16 and under, and disabled children under 18 as well as carers of certain adults.
This guide will help you decide whether home working is a possibility for your business and sets out key issues and considerations when introducing and managing the practice.
Subjects covered in this guide
- Introduction
- Advantages and disadvantages of employees working at home
- Types of work and skills suited to home working
- Employment contracts and working from or at home
- Kitting out people who work at home
- Manage employees who work from home
- Your health and safety obligations towards home workers
- How technology can facilitate working from home
- Responsibilities of home workers
