Beyond9to5 – Your gateway to a flexible career

Posted Fri, 30/05/2008 - 14:51 by admin

Vision: Flexible Learning & Flexible Earning

Mission: To provide training, support, camaraderie and career opportunities for flexible working online.

Aims: To create a community-based online network to support flexible workers in their specialities, for day-to-day help with running small enterprises, "portfolio" careers or flexible employment. We also offer continuous professional development, including opportunities to meet offline.

University limits staff's remote working

Posted Fri, 03/07/2009 - 09:11 by Helen

The THES reports today that Liverpool Hope University have implemented a working policy requiring all staff to work the full 35 hours of the working week on campus unless they obtain formal permission to work off site.  Academic staff in particular have described this as s a "shocking" example of micromanagement, an "insult" to their professionalism and an assault on the "autonomy of academ

Government advice for workers with flu symptoms

Posted Wed, 01/07/2009 - 09:34 by Helen

Many companies are setting in place procedures for dealing with potential outbreaks of swine flu.

Generally workers are requested to inform a named coordinator if at any time they are off work with flu-like symptoms. It is recommended that people follow government guidelines if they suspect at all that it may be swine flu:

Are you a "mousewife"?

Posted Fri, 30/01/2009 - 19:35 by Helen

The Daily Mail reported recently that "Britain’s mothers are turning into a nation of 'mousewives’ - by using home computers to boost their household income during the recession."

The internet is a popular way for stay-at-home mums to earn some extra income. Apparently 1 in 20 can earn at least £200 a month from using a computer (and of course its associated mouse) at home.

Some activities include selling books, DVDs, and CDs on auction websites, doing accounts for small businesses, reviewing events or products, setting up websites and acting as virtual PAs.

How Can Companies Help Remote Workers?

Posted Fri, 28/11/2008 - 15:45 by Sharon

In today's society working from home or flexibly is becoming more common. But how can companies ensure their remote workers are happy and that their skills are up to date?

It has been found that the major concerns that remote workers have are:

  • being left in the dark as to how the company is going
  • isolation from other workers
  • feelings that they will be looked upon as "skiving"
  • the lack of IT support

There are ways to overcome this.

Not so much a point as a series of steps

Posted Mon, 23/06/2008 - 09:31 by Gill Hunt

For me the transition to woking completely from home has happened gradually - and after 8 years I may be about to drift backl into working at least some of the time in an office.

I've always hated commuting and got lucky when having gritted my teeth travelling to London for a year the company moved to an office just a 15 minute drive away. When our first son was born I went part-time and managed, just about, to keep this going through a company takeover, redundancy and no. 2 son's complete failure to sleep coupled with a horrible spell commuting from Reading to Portsmouth!

Seeing myself reflected in someone else's situation.

Posted Wed, 18/06/2008 - 20:48 by Liz

Despite all the problems I had with juggling childcare and a career, I just gritted my teeth and got on with it, literally with my hair turning grey owing to stress. I had one of those jobs where presenteeism was the route to success. People worked overtime, all the time, for no extra pay. Then a member of my team came to me, very distressed about their own issues, and I heard myself say to them "there is always the option to leave, and do something new." I could see quite clearly for them it would make perfect sense to work flexibly.

Turning Point

Posted Wed, 18/06/2008 - 19:36 by Helen

Tell us about the moment you rejected 9to5...

What was your turning point - your Eureka moment, your tipping point, your lightbulb moment - the moment that you realised that the 9 to 5 traditional way of working just wasn't for you? Was it in response to a particular incident or did it happen over a period of time?

How will working flexibly affect us socially?

Posted Tue, 17/06/2008 - 11:23 by Sharon

As a parent who has had previous jobs to fit around the family, eg working nights and school hours, I am wondering how working from home will affect people socially. Some of the jobs I have had previously, even though the work I was doing was not very challenging for me personally, I really enjoyed because I was working with others and feeling part of a team. I have made some really good friends from work and have kept in contact with most of them over the years, even though I no longer work there.

Flexible Working

Posted Tue, 17/06/2008 - 10:19 by Sharon

As a single parent flexible working sounds like the ideal working solution. Juggling the work/family life balance can be very difficult when working a traditional 9 to 5 job. Mums especially feel guilty about not spending enough time with the family and when they are with the family, feel guilty about not spending enough time at work. It is finding the right balance that is difficult. I ask as a parent why do we feel like this?

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