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Benefits of flexible working
Offering more options to work flexibly can also help with recruitment and retention – recent research has found that over 75% of the workforce say that this is one of the benefits that they most value.
In response to recruitment challenges, Everyone Active has introduced a flexi-work benefit aimed at students. This enables them to fit work around their periods of study as well as allowing their role and hours to be transferred to another of the operator’s facilities while they’re away at university.
One employee to benefit is Bailey Hill, a 17-year-old lifeguard at Moulton Leisure Centre in Northamptonshire, who works two eight-hour shifts during the week and two at the weekend. “The flexibility of this role has helped me in many areas as I’m able to gain valuable experience in a working environment while still completing my studies at college,” he says. “It’s developed my confidence and I’ve been given training that has helped me build essential skills in leisure centre maintenance, customer relations and health & safety in the pool. I’m still thinking about university, and in my current role at Everyone Active there’s the flexibility for me to have a gap year and return to work here, so it’s great to have that option.”