The genie’s out of the bottle, and it isn’t going back. It’s been five years since Covid turned most of us in travel into homeworkers overnight, and many of the flexible working concessions that came out of the pandemic have now become normal – expectations, even, rather than just nice-to-haves.
Flexible working is now actually enshrined in law; since April 2024, all employees in England, Wales and Scotland have had the legal right to request flexible working from day one (those in Northern Ireland must still wait six months from their start date).
