Hi
We are a food manufacturing company and we are recruiting for a site manager. We found a good candidate but they are wanting to work from home one day a week. This is something we do not currently do as a standard practice for operational roles, especially a senior role of site manager. I would be interested to hear if others allow this and what your experiences are? Good and bad?
Thank you
Hi Louise,
Have you thought about treating it as you would if it were a request for flexible working (FWW) from any of your existing team at that level? If you use your normal FWW approach - but potentially speed things up a little if you can, given the current state of the recruitment market! - and consider it against the fairly limited and specific reasons allowed to refuse such a request, does it work? Can you justify saying no? Or rather, in this case, can you justify saying yes? If it's a tough decision or you're on the fence having done that, then do labour market factors/candidate strength push it over to be a 'yes'?
Good luck with it.
Hi Louise,
Have you thought about treating it as you would if it were a request for flexible working (FWW) from any of your existing team at that level? If you use your normal FWW approach - but potentially speed things up a little if you can, given the current state of the recruitment market! - and consider it against the fairly limited and specific reasons allowed to refuse such a request, does it work? Can you justify saying no? Or rather, in this case, can you justify saying yes? If it's a tough decision or you're on the fence having done that, then do labour market factors/candidate strength push it over to be a 'yes'?
Good luck with it.
