Flexibility Business Case – Building Your Business Case for Flexible Work Through Workforce Metric

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Attributes
  • Workplace Flexibility
Source

Workplace Gender Equality Agency (Australia)

Type of Resource

Toolkit

Target Area

Strategy

Target Unit

All Management

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This toolkit aims to help organizations identify the areas where flexibility could positively influence an organization’s productivity and employee engagement. It also provides advice on how to measure the business benefit for flexible working through workforce metrics.

Specifically, this toolkit aims to:

  • Identify workforce metric categories and metrics to measure the benefits of flexible working
  • Provide steps on building your business case for flexibility through workforce metrics
  • Provide templates to collect and calculate workforce metrics

Metrics can be developed from the following categories:

  • Uptake and perceptions of flexible work
  • Attraction of employees
  • Employee retention
  • Training investment
  • Productivity and engagement
  • Absenteeism
  • Employee wellbeing
  • Office space accommodation costs
  • Workforce composition

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