Today's flexible working announcement - https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/make-work-pay-improving-access-to-flexible-working - is a step forward, and we need to go further. Here's our take on what it gets right, and what still needs to change. 🧵

Make Work Pay: improving access to flexible working

We are seeking views on a new process for employers to follow when handling flexible working requests, as well as insights on flexible working practices more broadly.

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Trucking can't recruit its way out of a workforce crisis. New Timewise and Trucking Lives briefing sets out why job design, not just recruitment, is the key to keeping and attracting drivers. 📙 https://timewise.co.uk/article/making-trucking-work-tackling-logistics-workforce-crisis/

Unpredictable shifts aren't just inconvenient, they're a cost-of-living issue. Our CEO @claremcneil.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio 4 about 'one-sided flexibility' and what better shift-life balance really looks like. Worth a listen. 🎧

📢 New @Timewise research shows poor job quality is driving young people into economic inactivity: https://timewise.co.uk/article/young-workers-need-better-jobs-not-just-more-jobs/ Nearly 1m UK young people aren’t in work, education or training - with mental ill‑health a key factor. 🧵⬇️

Work–life incompatibility is the top reason drivers consider leaving. Better work design is the missing link: predictable rosters, real input, and fairer scheduling. Our new report sets out practical lessons to get there. 📙 Read the report: timewise.co.uk/article/why-...

🚚📦🚌 Logistics contributes £170bn to the economy & employs 2.7m people. Yet it records high rates of job insecurity, poor work-life balance and low autonomy. Our new report outlines the case for redesigning work in the UK’s most exposed sector. 📙 More than Miles: timewise.co.uk/article/why-...

📢 Latest #HRGamechangers newsletter is here! This month: Employment Rights Act update, June Angelides MBE joins as Timewise Ambassador, DBT's flex working consultation, and meet Tesco's job-share D&I managers Plus interesting reads & events 👉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/februa...

February 2026

Welcome to your latest issue of HR Gamechangers, spotlighting creative people managers, sharing knowledge and providing you with the most up to date intelligence on designing work that works for moder...

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In partnership with NHS Employers, we're leading work for NHS England to ensure e-rostering technology gives NHS staff more control over schedules and flexible working. Fairer rostering improves retention, wellbeing ,efficiency. Have evidence/case studies? Contact tess.lanning@timewise.co.uk

📢 Our latest #HRGamechangers update is here! Insights on #HealthierWorkingLives, part-time working, healthier work & more. Meet Gillian Brookes, flexible work specialist and Flexperts author & explore upcoming events: www.linkedin.com/pulse/decemb... #HR #ModernWorkingLives

December 2025

Welcome to your latest issue of HR Gamechangers, spotlighting creative people managers, sharing knowledge and providing you with the most up to date intelligence on designing work that works for moder...

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Workers told us: flexible working requests get approved on paper, but workloads stay the same. Careers stall, burnout rises. New legislation arrives in 2027, but without culture change, the gap between policy and practice remains. Read more: timewise.co.uk/article/call...

Calling time on the gap between flexible working policy and practice - Timewise

For thousands of workers across the UK, flexible working isn't a perk. It's the difference between staying in a career or dropping out altogether.

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The Keep Britain Working Review rightly calls for action on working age ill health. Tackling inflexible work in 'frontline' sectors & using stronger incentives, from procurement to tax reform, will drive real change for flexible, healthy jobs. 📘Healthy by Design: timewise.co.uk/article/why-...

Workers without flexibility are 4x more likely to leave after health decline. Our new report calls for Workplace Innovation Agreements - incentivising employers to prioritise retention over recruitment. #HealthyByDesign timewise.co.uk/article/why-...

Why healthy job design is critical to tackling economic inactivity - Timewise

This paper shows how insecure, inflexible and excessive hours in frontline sectors exacerbate the UK’s economic inactivity problem – and what to do about it.

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Our Beyond the Clock programme in Scotland, supported by @therobertsontrust.bsky.social, started this month. Burnout, turnover, inflexible rotas - they’re tackling it head-on. We're proud to be supporting these pioneers tackling shift-life balance head on. 🔗 timewise.co.uk/beyond-the-c...

🏆 Our #ResearchOfTheMonth goes to @timewise.bsky.social for their research paper 'Healthy By Design?' which shows that just 60,000 of the 2.4 million people economically inactive due to long-term ill health find a job each year. (1/5) Read here: timewise.co.uk/article/why-...

🧵Today is #PartTimeWorks day! I have been quite vocal in talking about my role as a Research Professor in a University being #PartTime because I believe #PartTimeWorks – in all kinds of jobs, at all levels. I have been working part-time since my son was born in 2012. @timewise.bsky.social

Timewise CEO Clare McNeil calling for action to improve shift work on great panel at Labour conference with @uclpolicylab.bsky.social

📉 Only 2.5% of health-inactive people return to work yearly. 57% who do get unsustainable frontline jobs. We're calling for healthy work standards & £500m fund to fix the revolving door between inactivity & poor employment: timewise.co.uk/article/why-... #HealthyByDesign

Why healthy job design is critical to tackling economic inactivity - Timewise

This paper shows how insecure, inflexible and excessive hours in frontline sectors exacerbate the UK’s economic inactivity problem – and what to do about it.

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Great to see @danielkebedeneu.bsky.social calling for teacher flexible working. With 10% leaving annually, change is needed. We found it's complex but achievable with whole-school approaches and strong leadership.

Developing a whole-school approach to flexible working - Timewise

Our 16-month Teaching Pioneers Programme saw us partner with eight secondary schools, within three multi-academy trusts, to explore how best to champion and deliver flexible working within the profession.

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Timewise CEO @claremcneil.bsky.social shares her thoughts on the government reshuffle and what it means for employment rights, work and health: timewise.co.uk/article/post...

Post-government reshuffle – what next? - Timewise

Timewise CEO Clare McNeil looks at what this means for employment rights, work and health.

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Time to challenge the myth that part-time work means lower quality. The number of hours worked doesn't define good quality. The skills, expertise and dedication a person brings does. Read more: https://timewise.co.uk/article/a-question-of-time-whats-happening-with-part-time-working-in-the-uk/

⚡ Frontline employers in Scotland: Apply now for fully-funded Timewise training to improve job security, work-life balance & performance. Starts this autumn. Limited places! ℹ️ Info: timewise.co.uk/beyond-the-c... ✅ Apply: forms.office.com/e/QLYV2LKK82

🧸 From this week, 9-month-olds are eligible for funded childcare in England. Transformative for families IF we have staff to deliver it. However 70% of providers lack capacity due to staff shortages. Flexible working could help fill half the shortfall.

Can flex help prevent staff burnout in the childcare sector? - Timewise

4 in 10 early years educators are leaving the sector for good. Pay and progression are known issues. Now it’s time to start looking at working pattern, too.

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📣 Your voice matters! Join our Worker Advisory Group – if you have ever asked for a change to your working pattern to manage the pressures of real life and want to influence how flexibility is implemented in modern workplaces, we want to hear from you.

YOUR part-time working story is needed! Heads up on our exciting Autumn campaign here…. email jo.burkill@timewise.co.uk to join #PartTimeWorks https://timewise.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Part-time-Works-our-Autumn-campaign.pdf

🚨 Construction needs 240k workers in 5 years but here's the real problem: "recruits 200k/year, loses 200k/year". It’s a recruitment AND retention issue. Our pilots proved flexible working cuts turnover & boosts productivity WITHOUT impacting delivery: timewise.co.uk/article/maki...

Making construction a great place to work: one year on - Timewise

One year after the completion of our Construction Pioneer Programme, we review what has changed, and what’s next.

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Part-time work. We say it’s time to make it more visible.  A little heads up on our exciting Autumn campaign here… are you with us?✊ DM us your email and we'll send you info. https://timewise.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Part-time-Works-our-Autumn-campaign.pdf #PartTimeWorks

📣 Your voice matters! We’re growing our Worker Advisory Group and calling for people, whether currently in work or actively job-seeking, who need to balance the pressures of real life with work responsibilities and want to influence how flexibility is implemented in modern workplaces.

ONS data suggests rising NI contributions & minimum wages forcing recruitment cuts, with younger workers hit hardest. Job insecurity creates lifelong impact on careers, earnings & health. Timewise & Youth Futures Foundation explored solutions: timewise.co.uk/article/impr...

Improving youth employment outcomes: the role of employers - Timewise

We brought employers from different sectors together to discuss how to support more young people into secure work with greater choice, autonomy and control.

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The state spends billions every year trying to fix people with health conditions & disabilities for jobs that simply don’t exist. Our response to the Keep Britain Working Review argues for a paradigm shift away from fixing the worker to fixing the workplace: timewise.co.uk/article/bett...

Better jobs, better outcomes - the case for healthy work standards - Timewise

The state is spending billions of pounds every year trying to fix people with health conditions and disabilities for jobs that simply don’t exist.

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🌟 Frontline employers in Scotland: Apply now for fully-funded Timewise training to improve job security, work-life balance & performance. Starts this autumn. Limited places! 👉 Info: timewise.co.uk/beyond-the-c... 👉 Apply: forms.office.com/e/QLYV2LKK82