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Companies failing to implement flexible working advances
A high proportion of businesses are failing to take advantage of recent technological advances and roll out flexible-working practices for their employees, it has been claimed.
While online communications technologies, such as improved internet and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) systems are increasingly commonplace among organisations of all sizes, British Computer Society's (BCS) Women's Forum has warned that many are failing to implement them with their employees missing out.
In particular, this lack of flexible working is hitting women workers the hardest, the body has argued, with the fact that just 14 per cent of the BCS's members are female likely to be reflected in the overall number of women currently working within the IT sector.
Jan Peters, manager of the BCS Women's Forum, commented: "I think there are barriers from stopping women progressing. Quite often, once you get into your thirties, family responsibilities come along and although companies have flexible working policies in place, quite often it is down to the discretion of the line manager to make it work."
"Project planning and management should allow people to deliver tasks within a defined timescale. It is all very well trying to attract women to your company by advertising flexible working, but when it comes down to it, it isn't that easy and they make you feel uncomfortable."
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