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How far you move on offering flexible working is up to you. At the other end of the
scale is autonomous flexibility whereby the successful candidate chooses their own
working pattern around agreed working hours.
3. Remote working.
The more days you can offer remote working, the further your talent pool reach
stretches.
• At the thin end, 1 day per week probably isn’t going to make much difference.
Employees will be grateful of a day from home, no doubt, but 4 days travelling 1
hour each way is still 8 hours lost to commuting per week.
• You’ll start to see a real benefit when you offer a 3:2 split (ideally in favour of
remote: in office). Our experience is that you can generally scope up to 50 miles
from office.
• This doubling of 25 to 50 miles actually increases your talent attraction from 3159
miles squared to 12639 miles squared.
• And fully remote? Well, the world is your oyster. Literally. It can become more
a case of getting your advert under the right noses with effective and targeted
Promotion.
Your Place may also have a lot of selling points you may want to shout about when
Promoting the vacancy.
Got a train station in walking distance? Shout about it!
Got a gym on site or accessible around working hours? Shout about it!
Got a thriving food scene on your doorstep? You get the idea…
Sure, potential candidates can research all this, but if they’re applying to a number of
roles, sometimes you have to grease the wheels.
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Granted, they’re not directly anything to do with your business or the role. But it will
help them visualise their new life at your offices and maybe even get them excited.
And what do excited job seekers do? They apply to the role…