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Flexible working may help 'manage your day better'
Flexible working can help increase productivity and reduce stress, by helping employees manage a timetable that suits them, according to a specialist.
The International Stress Management Association (ISMA) said that "flexible working can be used very positively to manage your day better", and that starting at ten instead of nine, and going on until five or six suited some people better.
"Some people are morning people and some people are evening people. And there's a big advantage to having a job where you're working at your peak time," said vice chair Ann McCracken.
A report, conducted earlier this year by the Equalities Review, found that women were still facing ongoing discrimination in the workplace, particularly those who were pregnant and mothers. In response to the report, communities secretary Ruth Kelly said that the government had made great strides in helping women balance work and family life.
"These include extended and better paid maternity leave, new paternity rights and the right to request flexible working," she told the BBC.
Even in large organisations where there is a policy that supoosedly allows a more “empathetic” approach to working mothers, there’s always that boss who gripes everytime you have to leave early or work a flex day!