Ministers may urge employers to allow more hybrid and remote working to help recruit more disabled people and care in the workplace, according to a House of Lords Committee.
A report by a cross-party committee says that the government should set up if it is considered an exception and hybrid work on the importance of the functioning of people with disabilities and long-term health conditions and long-term health conditions.
The House Labor Committee was set up in January to examine how the rise of remote and hybrid working affects employers, employees and the wider British economy. It has heard evidence that remote and hybrid work makes it easier for disabled people to manage their situation, in terms of avoiding commuting.
“Many people with disabilities, parents and carers either have a good work experience or can still work where this is not possible,” the committee found.
Hybrid working – where employees split their time between the office and home or another location – has become the new normal for a quarter of the UK, according to office work figures for National Statistics.
However, the Committee found access to work at home is not uniform and is more available to professionals, university graduates or people living in London.
It said that a hybrid approach could offer the “best of both worlds” by giving employees a better life balance while also helping employers combine part of the week.
The report warns, however, of the lack of investment in training sales to support hybrid or remote workers, and it calls on ministers to put money into management training.
Amidst a string of office turnover orders from some major companies last year, the committee found most employees and their employees agreeing to hybrids working.
However, there remains a “Wide Gap” As most of the workers said they want to spend two days a week in the office, while their employers want to see them there three days a week.
Rosalind Scott, the committee’s chair, said: “There are clear advantages for employees who do not have to prepare employers for work.
The policies of most companies that order the staff back to the office “value formation of hybrid work”, found the Pirme Sige Committee, including full offices of the office, including outlier firebers, including outlier firms, including outlier firms, including more firebers demanded by only a few fires, including more firebers demanded by only a few firebers, including Amazon office fires.
The Committee recommends that employees and employees should be left to manage the hybrid arrangements of the arrangements themselves rather than those included in the government law. However, peers believe there is a role for ministers to provide more guidance to staff and businesses.