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If you have received a flexible working request, this model guide sets out an effective, legal framwork to follow when handling it, and determining your response.
This guide looks at the legislation and best practises for home working, covering the statutory right of qualified workers to request to work from home and how line managers may effectively address the practical challenges that come with it.
A practical manager’s guide to sabbaticals, covering how to assess requests, manage approvals, and support employees before, during, and after leave.
Our Guide to Trialling a Hybrid Working Model offers comprehensive insights and step-by-step instructions for organisations to effectively implement and evaluate a hybrid work arrangement.
Our Flexible Working Policy outlines guidelines for employees seeking alternative work arrangements, fostering work-life balance and productivity.
Our Flexitime Policy Template outlines the guidelines and procedures for flexible working hours, promoting work-life balance and productivity while maintaining operational efficiency and meeting business needs.
Our Homeworking or Remote Working Policy Template establishes clear guidelines and expectations for employees working remotely, ensuring productivity, communication, data security, and compliance with company policies while working from home.
Our Flexible Working Agreed Decision Extension Letter Template streamlines extension requests, ensuring efficient communication and flexibility.
Our Flexible Working Application Meeting Invitation Letter template invites employees to discuss flexible work arrangements, promoting work-life balance and open communication.
Our flexible working compromise arrangement letter template simplifies finding mutually beneficial solutions while considering both employee and company needs.
Our flexible working appeal letter template can help employees formally challenge a rejected flexible working request.
Flexible working rejection appeal outcome letter template for UK employers.
Our Flexible Working Request Letter Template simplifies the process, enabling employees to request flexible arrangements with confidence and clarity.
Use this model letter to provide an employee with formal acceptance of their flexible working request.
Use this model letter to notify the employee that their flexible working request has been received and that a meeting will be set up to discuss it with them.
Flexible working rejection letter template explaining business reasons clearly and compliantly.
Our Flexible Working Trial Period Confirmation Letter template formally confirms the upcoming trial period, outlining expectations and terms for the flexible work arrangement.
Our Hybrid Working Move Confirmation Letter Template ensures clarity, guiding seamless transition and expectations for employees.
Hybrid working confirmation letter for confirming permanent home and office working arrangements following a successful hybrid working trial.
Our Hybrid Working Trial Period Announcement Letter Template formally informs employees about the upcoming trial period for hybrid work arrangements, outlining the details and expectations clearly.
Hybrid working trial period progress update letter for UK employers to review performance, communication, collaboration, concerns and agreed actions during a trial.
Our Invitation to Discuss Hybrid Working Application Letter Template formally invites an employee to discuss their hybrid work application, promoting open communication and alignment on expectations.
Sabbatical agreement letter confirming approved leave dates, pay, benefits, employment arrangements, contact requirements and return-to-work arrangements.
Sabbatical request letter template for UK employees to request extended leave, covering proposed dates, reason, handover arrangements and return to work.
Sabbatical request refused letter for employers confirming a declined sabbatical request and explaining the decision clearly and professionally.
Our Hybrid Working Trial Period Feedback Form Template gathers valuable input from employees, facilitating the evaluation of the trial period and shaping future hybrid work policies.
Homeworking agreement template for UK employers.
Our flexible working application meeting script template guides productive discussions, ensuring clear communication and mutual understanding of flexible work arrangements.
Our Flexible Working Application Review Meeting Plan template guides productive discussions, ensuring clear communication and mutual understanding of flexible work arrangements.
A structured template to review hybrid working arrangements, assessing performance, attendance, collaboration, and ongoing suitability.
More than just templates, the Flexible and hybrid working Knowledge Hub brings together practical HR guidance, real-world experience and tried-and-tested resources to help you understand the subject, manage it effectively and make informed decisions.
Flexible working is simply requesting to work a different pattern to that stated on the employee's terms and conditions of employment. Examples of kinds of flexible working that can be requested include:
Reducing hours to work part-time.
Changing start and finish times.
Having flexibility with start and finish time (sometimes known as ‘flexitime’).
Working hours over fewer days (‘compressed hours’).
Working from home or elsewhere (‘remote working’).
Sharing the job with someone else (‘job share’).
Hybrid working is a particular kind of flexible working that combines the benefit of being both in the workplace, and at home. As a form of flexible working, it can be accessed through the formal procedure.
Flexible and hybrid working templates are essential for managing a low-risk, compliant Flexible and hybrid working process.
A flexible and hybrid working process helps employers establish and manage alternative working arrangements. It will typically follow these key stages:
Flexibility should work for both sides. Clear expectations around availability, performance and communication help avoid problems later.
Understand the common mistakes employers can make when managing this area of HR, helping you reduce risk, prevent unnecessary costs and ensure the process is handled fairly, consistently and correctly.
Here we show you which resources to use to effectively respond to a request for flexible working, taking into account the different decisions and directions that are likely / possible.
Following this flowchart will ensure that you factor in all eventualities, follow legal / code of conduct or best practice processes, communicate effectively, and reduce the risk of things going wrong.
Flexible working describes arrangements that change when, where or how an employee works. Examples include changes to hours, working patterns, compressed hours and remote or hybrid working.
Eligible employees have a statutory right to request flexible working. Employers must consider requests in accordance with the applicable statutory process.
Hybrid working combines working from different locations, typically a mixture of workplace and remote working. Expectations should be clearly established.
Yes, a request can be refused for one or more of the statutory business reasons. Employers should follow the correct process and explain their decision appropriately.
Regular reviews can help employers and employees assess whether an arrangement continues to work effectively.
HRDocBox combines real-world HR experience, subject-matter expertise and commercial understanding to support effective flexible and hybrid working with practical, tried-and-tested resources. With instant access, editable documents, ongoing updates and 12 months' access, you get practical HR support when you need it.
How this content is developed and reviewed
The Flexible and hybrid working templates toolkit is developed using a practical HR methodology that considers current UK employment legislation, ACAS guidance, CIPD good practice and the real-world HR process it supports. Templates and supporting information are regularly reviewed and updated, with additional reviews triggered by significant changes to legislation, guidance or established HR practice, helping ensure each document remains practical, relevant and suitable for UK employers.
Darryl Horn, Chartered HR Director
Darryl is a Chartered HR professional with over 25 years' experience in senior HR and employee relations roles.
He has extensive practical experience of managing flexible and hybrid working HR processes and founded hrdocbox to provide businesses with practical, professionally developed HR resources grounded in UK employment law and best practice.
HRDocBox has been creating practical UK HR documents since 2009.
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