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View full libraryOur Global Flexible Working Policy Template sets the standard for flexible work arrangements across the organization, ensuring consistency, fairness, and adherence to local laws and regulations.
If you are reviewing your flexible working arrangements, these flexible working policy templates give you a practical set of policies covering requests, consideration, decisions and review.
1 Overview
1.1 At [Company Name], we recognise the importance of offering flexible working arrangements to our employees to promote work-life balance, enhance productivity, and attract and retain top talent. This Global Flexible Working Policy outlines our commitment to providing flexibility in how and where work is conducted while ensuring operational needs are met.
2 Scope
2.1 This policy applies to all employees of [Company Name] worldwide, including full-time, part-time, and remote workers, unless otherwise specified by local laws and regulations.
3 General Principles
3.1 Types of Flexible Working Arrangements
Remote Work: Employees may work from a location outside of the traditional office, either on a regular or occasional basis, subject to the approval of their supervisor.
Flexible Hours: Employees may have the option to adjust their daily work hours to better suit their personal needs, provided this does not compromise
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The Global Flexible Working Policy offers a comprehensive framework for organisations to establish consistent guidelines for flexible work arrangements across their global workforce.
It aims to promote work-life balance, accommodate diverse employee needs, and enhance operational flexibility while ensuring adherence to local laws and regulations.
Yes. This template has been designed for organisations of all sizes, including small businesses, charities and growing employers. It follows UK employment law best practice and can be adapted to suit your organisation.
Our templates are developed with UK employment legislation, Acas guidance and HR best practice in mind and are reviewed and updated as relevant requirements change. However, every employment situation is different, so the template should be adapted to the circumstances and checked against the employee's contract and your organisation's procedures before use.
Yes, we highlight the areas of the document that you need to update with your own details, and where you need to make decisions to suit your situation. This saves you time and ensures that you meet best practice.
Yes. Once purchased, you'll be able to download it instantly. Templates are provided in editable format (such as .doc or .xls) so you can customise them easily, and in PDF format for easy sharing.
If you're looking for broader support, we also offer toolkits and library bundles that include the Global flexible working policy template, along with other HR templates and policies for fully managing your situation. These may be more cost-effective if you need deeper advice.
AI can produce a document quickly, but effective HR documentation needs to be more than well-written words. It needs to reflect relevant UK employment law, HR best practice, practical considerations and the circumstances in which it will be used. These resources have been professionally developed around that wider HR context, drawing on extensive practical experience, rather than simply generating a generic document from a prompt.
We appreciated the practical emphasis rather than just a list of principles. We made a handful of changes for our own terminology and were then happy with the result.
It was straightforward to explain to managers who were not HR specialists. It helped us make the position much clearer internally.
How this content is developed and reviewed
The Global flexible working policy template 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 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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