I would say that our profession is ideally suited to flexible working. Our business in particular, as we all work remotely with no head office to which to troll every day and the theoretical ability to do most of our job (apart from sitting on your sofa) from any beach with a good wifi signal. So I’m not sure why colleagues are showing a ‘limited appetite’ for it. But we, and most of the companies which took part in this much publicised trial of four-day-weeking, are the lucky ones. If you’re paid a pittance by the hour, need to patrol a hospital ward, or deliver a minimum number of Amazon parcels per day to keep your van, it could only become an option were the minimum wage to increase by 25% and enough new workers willing to work for it suddenly (re)appear. Neither possibilities which can currently be seen on any nearby horizon.
“Letter of authority: Why now is the right time for change”
This may sound like a non-issue from outside the world-of-financial-advice bubble. It is the bain, however, of the daily working lives of many of us, particularly of those paid by we advisers to do the dirty work of dealing with the many providers with whom we have to work.
