How to implement flexible work in your organisation

Every organisation will be at a different stage of implementing flexible work.

Adapt these stages to what works for you.

Step 1: Analysis

In this stage, analyse how your organisation currently supports flexible work.

Speak with stakeholders, such as:

And run an employee survey, focus groups or a combination of methods.

Think about the concerns and challenges your employees will have with flexible work, such as:

Organisations may like to do a flexible work self-assessment.

If you deliver services to the community, look at what impacts flexible work may have on how you do this.

In this stage, design the materials your organisation needs to implement change.

The vision statement shows employees:

The goals are what an organisation needs to do to achieve flexible work.

In writing a vision statement and goals, organisations can think of:

Create accessible and consistent communications, policies and processes. And use all leaders to create buy-in across the organisation.

This helps tell everyone what’s changing and embeds flexibility into the culture.

Develop policies and processes that support flexible work, such as:

Your organisation’s policies must comply with relevant enterprise agreements and laws.

In this stage, engage your organisation’s employees using the materials you created in stage 2.

This may include:

In this stage, review your organisation’s progress towards flexible work.

To do this, it’s a good idea to collect some data, set targets and report on it regularly.

Some data that shows an organisation’s progress may include: