On this #InternationalDayOfHappiness, we’re reflecting on how flexible, good quality work boosts wellbeing. Our #EndTwoTierWorkforce report reveals frontline workers often lack control over shifts, impacting mental & physical health. Time for change.
🎧 @claremcneil.bsky.social was recently on #YouAndYours, talking to Winifred Robinson about our work on inequity in the workforce between frontline and desk-based workers, supported by @financialfairness.bsky.social. Listen again here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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"Retention is a massive challenge within the NHS, but flexible working is a way to support retention. It is a fundamental part of the workplace - not a reward."
Hannah Carter @nhsemployers.bsky.social
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Nicola Pease
Lead Principal Consultant
Timewise
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We can see absence drops, health-related issues decline, and we retain people for longer that have joined us."
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Kevin Green, Chief People Officer, First Bus
"Construction is one of the industries with the biggest number of lost sickness absence days across the UK. It has consequences for health and safety on site as well, where you've got workers who are feeling fatigued and physically tired, mentally tired."
Nicola Pease, Timewise #EndTwoTierWorkforce
Construction is one of the industries with the biggest number of lost sickness absence days across the UK. It has consequences for health and safety on site as well, where you've got workers who are feeling fatigued and physically tired, mentally tired."
Nicola Pease, Timewise #EndTwoTierWorkforce
Some interesting facts from Kevin Green in our #EndTwoTierWorkforce webinar:
🚌 @firstbus.bsky.social has 18,000 staff.
🚌13,000 are bus drivers, 3,000 are engineers.
🚌 It costs £18,500 to train a driver.
🚌Timetables, attraction and attrition are all major focuses for the organisation.
"I look at how staff experience impacts on the retention of our valued workforce and supports improved patient care."
Hannah Carter @nhsemployers.bsky.social
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"By giving workers more input into into their own working patterns and by increasing the security of their working arrangements, employers can take steps to improve job satisfaction and the health and wellbeing of their team members."
Amy Butterworth, Timewise
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"We found that since 2019, 1.3m more people in desk-based jobs gains access to flexible hours working.
In the same time period, the number of shift-based workers with access to flexible hours saw no growth at all."
Amy Butterworth, Consultancy Director
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Delighted to be People Management Magazine's top story www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1904...
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Backed by a coalition of industry leaders, we are calling upon the UK government to go beyond the legislative proposals in the Employment Rights Bill to create practical partnerships with industry to speed up change. See more here: timewise.co.uk/article/endi...
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Our new #EndTwoTierWorkforce report has been covered by @theguardian.com today, which you can read here exclusively: www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...
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NEW! Read our 'Ending the Two-Tier Workforce' report, backed by @financialfairness.bsky.social. It contains key recommendations on how to make work fairer for nurses, builders, bus drivers & all frontline workers, re: working pattern & autonomy.
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“We're publishing a report this Monday, with recommendations for the Department for Business & Trade. Plus a set of practical sector specific guides that will focus on how employers and sector bodies can implement flexible & secure work.” Amy Butterworth @timewise.bsky.social #EndTwoTierWorkforce
Cliff Lee, the Retail Trust: “Most retailers we are speaking to are dealing with 40% employee churn.”
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Cliff Lee talks about how the Retail Trust is 190 years old, at our #EndTwoTierWorkforce webinar: “But as you can imagine, our sector, along with lots of others, has gone through significant change.” 3 million people in the UK are employed in the retail sector.
“Solutions aren’t delivered in a blueprint. 20% more staff are needed by 2040 – that doesn’t take into account those leaving already. We need new ways of attracting & retaining people.” Helen Wright, external workforce manager, care careers team, @norfolkcc.bsky.social #EndTwoTierWorkforce webinar
"I think its key to improve the flexibility and security in jobs where people are so they're not forced into this insecure work."
Alice Arkwright @the-tuc.bsky.social
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"If employers want to deliver the spirit of the legislation they're going to have to think more inclusively about access to flexibility beyond hybrid and and desk based flex & look creatively at how to redesign work for all workforces." @AmyBConsulting
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"...and Timewise, I think have done some brilliant research that showed that Black & Minority Ethnic workers were more hesitant about talking to their employers about changes to their working arrangements."
Alice Arkwright, @the-tuc.bsky.social
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"To give one example [of positives], a quarter of midwives and maternity support staff surveyed by the @MidwivesRCM said an agreement to work flexibly could encourage them to return or stay working in the health service."
Alice Arkright @the-tuc.bsky.social
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@nyecominetti.bsky.social compares the coming changes to introducing the minimum wage over 20 years ago:
"Can we continue to raise pay, raise terms & conditions without costing jobs? And fundamentally, that's an empirical question. We don't know until we do it."
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Professor Alan Bogg, University of Bristol, on the Employment Rights Bill:
"I may have some criticisms but it's a gamechanger for flexible and secure work in labour markets."
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"Control in your job is strongly linked to both your health and job satisfaction."
Clare McNeil, Director of Policy & Innovation at Timewise
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"60 per cent of employees are in site-based jobs that cannot be worked from home." Clare McNeil, Director of Policy & Innovation at Timewise
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