Essex Bookkeepers on How Flexible Working Makes Businesses Attractive to Employees

RAINHAM, U.K. - Sept. 2, 2016 - PRLog -- Essex bookkeepers Office Assistants have been discussing how offering flexible working could make a business more attractive to good people.

"Naturally you demonstrate your own passion for what you are doing and hope to motivate the same in your employees", says managing director Lynn Watson. "Alongside this, and the attractive pay package, sits the way you operate and will expect them to perform."

Recent research by Regus, the major international player in business services, indicates the need to offer flexible working conditions to attract and retain the best personnel. Of their survey of 3,000 professionals, 90% said that if everything else about two positions was equal, they would go for the one that had the most flexible working options.

Richard Morris, Chief Executive of Regus UK, said that these days flexibility is not looked on as a perk – it is seen as more of a right. It has become "a key differentiator for talented individuals".

Almost a third of respondents in the survey also said they would not have left their previous position when they did if working hours and conditions had been more flexible.

Lynn Watson says, "Clearly, if you value your people, it would pay to make their workplace setup and hours as flexible as possible. Entrepreneurs need to have hard working people they can trust to remain in place or progress through the business. You don't need the expense and hassle of the recruitment process every year."

According to Richard Morris, "A flexible role is one where the individual has more control over where and when they are productive. Managers must get better at measuring on results rather than on time spent at a specified desk …There is also the current business climate to consider. The economic uncertainty requires business to be more agile and nimble so operating with a fluid and flexible workforce, using available workspace, makes real commercial sense…"

Office Assistants offers bookkeeping services and much more to clients throughout the south east of England from their base in Rainham, Essex. For more information visit http://www.officeassistants.org.