Flexibility Works is a boutique consultancy and training organisation that provides practical tools, support and resources to help employers create a successful flexible working culture. We are a team of leading experts and commentators, bringing a depth of knowledge, insight and years of practical experience to help businesses and individuals thrive.
Our services
Consultancy
- Flex Essentials – Our entry level consultancy service for employers with a light-touch audit, employee pulse survey and report with practical recommendations on how to leverage flexible working for better people and business outcomes.
- Go Flex – Our comprehensive programme to help you move the dial on your flexible working. Includes senior leadership engagement, staff surveys and feedback sessions, insights report and action plan.
- Bespoke consultancy – whether you want to explore a 4-day work week, greater flex for frontline workers, or something else, we can support your organisation through research, conception, pilots and evaluation.
Training
- Manager training – workshops to ensure managers understand what flexible working is, and how to manage flexible working requests supportively, and effectively. It covers both formal and informal flex.
- Working well as a hybrid team – workshop to support teams connect and communicate well in a hybrid set-up.
- Employability support – workshop for employability teams to ensure they have the knowledge and tools to influence employer hiring practices and secure flexible job opportunities for clients.
- Career returners – workshop for people returning to work after a career break to support them find and secure a flexible job.
Accreditation
- We’re developing Scotland’s first flexible working standard to showcase what good flexible working looks like and support employers to leverage flexible working to better achieve wider organisational goals.
Our Story
Flexibility Works is a social business, co-founded by two of Scotland’s leading experts in Flexible Working – Lisa Gallagher and Nikki Slowey.
Between us, we have vast experience of working directly with employers in Scotland around flexible working. We also have experience of working in senior roles within different sectors and setting up and running organisations.
Flexibility Works is our way of harnessing our energy, knowledge and passion to support more employers than ever before to move their dial on flexible working. Our approach is human, professional and practical.
We have worked with large and small organisations across different sectors to create working culture change.
As a social organisation, part of our mission is to add value for employers free of charge, supporting lower income workers to balance their work and home life.
Working flexibly is not only good for employers and people, it has the power to address deep-rooted, societal and economic issues like poverty, inequality, and the health and wellbeing of our nation.
As two mums of six boys, it is our personal and professional mission to change working culture in Scotland, creating a more fair and flexible way that will benefit workers not only today but our children’s generation and generations to come.