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+ Protecting workers, businesses and society during times of crisis through Flexible working At the time of writing April 2000) The UK government and other bodies rencouraging employers to be more tive in working arrangement during the Covid ten order to protect workers and their businesses, avoid redundancies and curb the out of the Virus. This includes flexible working as such as Remote working and working from home. According to the Office for National State tic, in 2019 Just of the UK labour force worked mainly from home but during the lockdown period remote working became the norm Creative resourcing solutions such as staggering his or reducing teams to have fewer people at the workplace Redeployment of employees from areas of low demand to parts of the business which are busier Short-term working for example where employees work loss than their regular con tractual hours, such as a three-day week) Temporary lay-off's whereby an employer asks employees to stay at home and not attend work or be paid for a femporary period. Organization could learn from the experiences of KPMG, the international profesional service Faced with the economic global downturn in 2008/09, KPMG wroduced in Innovative short file working scheme to preserve jobs and help tin tint KPMG were unwilling to put the experiences of 2002/03, when the firm made redundances which contained growth when the uplurn in the economy came and in January 2009 Junched a new scheme which provides for The deployment of employees to other Weational parts of the business where mor ce we needed. This is with the firm's long-term am of developing people to work cross cultures and geographical boundaries on Chapter 11 and 123 Petraining sone employees sols can be used across different parts of the bui ness. This allows KPMG to build up response teams comprising individuals who have a med set of that can be used across different areas of work Implementing Flexible Future-a scheme which involves agreed changes in work ing paths during times when the business is quiet The ble future shume includes one or both of the following options A reduced working week (eg, a four-day week or nine-day fortnight. A sabbatical of between four towelve we leave at 30of pay in 2000 KPMG an invoke the option by giving one week's nice for reduced hours woning of our w notice for the statical. The maximum salary loss in any calendar years capped at (Corted Cod 30% of gay and payroon dover a periodonto the actions conto che ben throughout the period when they are on odhouse Following the launch of the mos had three decide whether Voor for the home and by and of the period, four out of five of the 12.000 KPMG partners and we had signed the charged won the condition of brand of 12 more India whole ned up for the where can be approached by The scheme wow Porcond in a way to change in and mwice about co wydandis oled to a company molt captand the cost of redundance mon payer in the firm bad WOOL Questions 1 It has been suggested that in the longer term Covid 19 could cause a permanent shift to homeworking. What are the advantages and disadvantages of homeworking for employers and employees? 2 On the face of it, the KPMG approach appears to be a win-win situation for employer and employee. Do you agree with this view