When Flexible Working Goes Wrong – Five Key Points For Employers

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The worry that an employee might not be working from home as expected is nothing new. However, as more companies adopt flexible working practices and allow employees to work from home, this issue is becoming more prevalent. If employees are less visible to employers, working patterns and behaviour become harder to monitor.

Say, for example, an employee who is working from home seems to be unresponsive throughout the day and is regularly missing deadlines. Or you suspect somebody is not working the hours they are contracted to, because they're logging off early. It's quite understandable for a company to want to protect themselves, and organise some kind of employee monitoring before giving them much more freedom A question we are often asked by employers is: How can I protect myself and what can be done to prevent home working policies being abused?