This week’s topics
Flexible Working and Remote Employee Wellbeing
- Hybrid and remote working patterns
- Impact of telecommuting on mental health and work-life balance
- Overcoming communication barriers in distributed teams
- Strategies to sustain off-site productivity and engagement
- How Flexible Work Arrangements Can Improve Motivation - Organizational Psychology Lecture 8.3
- Work Life Wellness for Remote Employees
- Flexible Working Methods
- Remote working
What you will be able to do
- 1.4 Suggest ways in which a business can increase employee motivation.
- 1.5 Discuss how flexible working and working from home can impact employees’ motivations and wellbeing and performance.
Activity
Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: suggest ways in which a business can increase employee motivation.
Study materials
Videos
- How Flexible Work Arrangements Can Improve Motivation - Organizational Psychology Lecture 8.3 · YouTube · Professor Q · 5 min · for registered students
- Work Life Wellness for Remote Employees · YouTube · The HR Hub with Andrea Adams · 18 min · for registered students
- Flexible Working Methods · YouTube · Galton College · 36 min · for registered students
- Remote working · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students
Further resources
- CIPD: Flexible and hybrid working practices in 2023 · PDF · Other, report · for registered students
- Acas Code of Practice on requests for flexible working (2024) · Reading · Other, report · for registered students
- Business Ethics, ch. 10.1: More telecommuting or less? · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 274–278 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
