Working from home vs working in the office is still a major topic of conversation at every business event that you go to.

Some companies have embraced it, other companies seem to have been dragged kicking and screaming into a more flexible way of working. There seems to be a conflict between employees and employers. Employers wanting their teams to be in the office more and employees wanting more flexibility than ever.

Of course, flexible working is not just about location, it is also about the hours of work. We have some members of the team who perform best early in the morning. We have others who perform better later on in the day. We simply ask that our team attend an online team huddle at the same time each day. We measure performance on output, not hours of the day you work. 

Tickd was formed during the Lockdown period and so in many ways we have had to embrace flexible working from day 1. Remote / flexible working is engrained in our culture and recruitment decisions.

We work completely remotely, with just one team office day a month. We keep our recruitment to within 2 hours of Birmingham or Nottingham which is where we hold our office days. 

Cons of flexible working

• We’ve found it harder to employ staff at the more junior end as often they need a bit more human interaction.

Pros of flexible working

• We’ve been able to employ people that we wouldn’t have previously considered due to Geography.
• We’ve been able to employ people with conditions that make it difficult to be in the office every day and they have turned out to be some of our most valuable members of the team
• The team is happier and more flexible than ever, there are trust levels that go a lot deeper than ‘doing the work because somebody is stood over my shoulder’.