Why
Flexible working arrangements have significant benefits for employers and employees.
Why are many retailers seeking to make their workplaces more flexible for workers - including parents, mature age people and people with disabilities?
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1. What the law says
2. Benefits to employers
3. Benefits to customers
4. Benefits to employees
Flexible work practices used to be seen as something that was “a nice or good thing to do” (eg to help employees with family responsibilities). It then became a “should do” (eg included in industrial agreements). Now, as a consequence of the changing demographics in Australia, flexible work practices are seen as a “must do to meet business needs”.
Already, the implications of an ageing labour force are impacting on Australian business with a growing demand for workers in many occupations. The need for flexible working practices will grow as the baby boomers retire and as more employees need to balance work with caring sometimes for children and their parents.
Flexible working allows businesses to draw from a larger pool of talented workers who require flexibility to balance work with their retirement, care for others or to have a better work and life balance.