Flexible working at Cancer Research UK

What is working flexibly? Who benefits from flexible working? How do you ask for flexible working? In this episode we’re joined by home-based workers, Andy Punter and Jessica Higgins, to discuss the benefits and challenges of flexible working. We talk about the positive impact on physical and mental health, and work-life balance that flexible working can bring, as well as sharing advice for managing remote-based teams. Andy and Jess share tips on how to stay disciplined, how to switch off and the importance of adopting a flexible mindset. We also discuss why more organisations should offer remote-based roles and how to forge good working relationships with office-based workers. Find Jessica and Andy on LinkedIn: Jessica: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-higgins-4b839891/ Andy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-punter-3356011a/ Follow Eleanor on Medium: https://medium.com/@contacteleanorgibson Follow Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/regularpodder Read Andy’s blog post on managing remote teams: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i-have-learnt-managing-remote-teams-cruk-andy-punter/?trackingId=wWzquXEnWx5FIjmD91g61w%3D%3D Read Jess’s blog post on running remote demos: https://medium.com/cancer-research-uk-tech-team-blog/5-things-we-learnt-from-running-remote-demos-c1acf67bb62e Remote working tools: Mural https://mural.co/ Slack https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/ Microsoft teams https://products.office.com/en-gb/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software Trello https://trello.com/ OneNote https://products.office.com/en-gb/onenote/digital-note-taking-app If you’d like to hear more from the Technology team at CRUK you can find us on our LinkedIn showcase page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/cancer-research-uk-digital-and-support-experience Read the Technology team blog: https://medium.com/cancer-research-uk-tech-team-blog See what roles are going within the Technology team: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/charity-jobs/jobs-by-team Get in touch with the podcast team directly at [email protected]