Four things to expect in workplaces during 2020

Ongoing trends

Adam Saville
clock • 2 min read

Internal communications, workplace flexibility and ‘employee first’ cultures will 'dominate year ahead'

With a new year upon us, employee experience platform Perkbox has predicted that workplace flexibility will become the norm in 2020. In the past, flexible working was a perk provided only by certain types of businesses, however the convergence of start-up with corporate company culture will lead to the emergence of an ‘employee first' culture at organisations, Perkbox has suggested. The tail-end of the 2010s saw flexible working go from small modern outfits to large firms like Barclays, Cisco and Vodafone, with some, such as Simply Business, going as far as offering four-day working w...

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