Our Events: What's On

Current Events

We host regular webinar and face-to-face events covering a range of topics about flexible working that are relevant to employers and people managers across all industries. With guest speakers at each event, we explore a flex topic with insight from many view points.

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Past Events

Missed out on any of our previous events? Here are a few of our past events so you can see what our webinars are like before you sign up to our current event.

Flexibility Works Live:

What Labour’s flexible working plans mean for Scottish employers

 

 

Date: November, 2024

Join us as we discuss the detail of Labour’s plans and unpick what Labour’s flexible working plans mean for Scottish employers, and what action employers need to take right now.

Speakers: Michael McLaughlin (Smoomiths), Hayden Feeney (Centrica) and Tony Mulcahy (Dept of Business and Trade).  

 

Flexibility Works Live:

What does hybrid working look like in Scotland right now?

 

 

Date: December, 2023

Hybrid working remains the biggest change to the way we work in the last 100 years. We’re still very much in the ‘test and learn’ phase with brilliant opportunities to improve work for people and for businesses. There are also new challenges, and plenty of ways to get it wrong. Watch our online event replay where we explored our latest research about what hybrid working looks like in Scotland in 2023, based on data from more than 1,000 Scottish office workers.

Speakers: Gillian Goldie (Head of People and Organisational Development at Scottish Enterprise) & Silka Patel (Social Value Manager at Leidos)

 

 

Flexibility Works Live:

How to get ready for the UK’s new flexible working legislation

 

 

Date: August, 2023

The UK’s new Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill is coming into force summer 2024. Are you prepared for the changes? We had fantastic speakers to facilitate a conversation about what the changes mean for your organisation and your people.

Speakers: Dawn McFarlane (Scotia Homecare Solutions), Michael McLaughlin (Shoosmiths), Steve Collinson (Zurich) and Kirsten Oswald (SNP)