Flexible Working

As an employee, you might be able to improve the way you live, work and travel by adopting a more flexible approach to the times you work.

This might involve:

• Compressed working week (working your usual number of hours in a week, but spread over fewer, longer days. e.g. 5 days of 7½ hours becomes 4 days of 9½ hours)
• Flexible start and finish times, allowing employees to organise working days around public transport, car sharing opportunities, daylight, child care and other non-work commitments or to avoid congestion
• Staggered hours across workforce – so all staff do not start and finish at the same times
• Shift swapping, term-time working, job sharing or part-time working
• Night working

"Travelling off peak doesn’t only relate to driving by car. All forms of public transport can be very busy at peak times therefore travelling outside of peak hours can be much more pleasant and is also considerably less expensive in many cases. It makes a great deal of sense in terms of making effective use of our transport infrastructure’s capacity."

ways2work website

You can download a factsheet on flexible working [pdf, 519KB] to give to your employer. This is taken from the Manual for Travel Plans which contains a wealth of other ideas to support travel in the workplace.