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Hybrid Working, Mental Health and UK Employment Law: culture, inclusion, flexible working rights and indirect discrimination

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Practice notes

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic marked a profound shift in how many of us do our jobs, overturning long‑standing routines. This note concentrates on hybrid working—flexibility over where work happens—while, unavoidably, also brushing against flexible working, which concerns when we work.

An historical context

At first, most people laboured at or near home—on the land, in small home-based manufacture, and in local services. The industrial revolution—bringing factories and large-scale farming—meant people had to travel to a workplace so they could collaborate on the same machinery or tend shared fields, flocks and herds. Meanwhile, as printing and related technologies spread, commerce triggered an explosion in document production. People in document-centred roles—for example, lawyers and accountants—needed to be where the papers were stored to avoid generating multiple copies of everything. One driver for the rise of the modern office was to house—and work on—that ever-growing volume of documents. Naturally, offices evolved into far more than mere document stores...

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Richard Martin

Mindful Business Charter

Richard is the CEO of the Mindful Business Charter, a cross business initiative to reduce the stress we experience at work and which is a key cause of workplace mental illness. He is also a principal consultant at workplace consultancy Byrne Dean and is on the IBA Wellbeing Commission. He formerly chaired the steering committee of the Lord Mayor of London’s This is Me campaign which uses story telling to break down the stigma associated with mental illness. He is a qualified coach and mental health first aid instructor. His first career was in law, becoming a senior employment law partner before mental breakdown in 2011 left him in hospital for a month and unable to work for two years. His experience of breakdown and recovery is the subject of his memoir, This Too Will Pass – Anxiety in a...

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