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Viewpoint: Flexible futures

14 Jan 2021

Director of HR, Karen Heaton

Karen Heaton

Director of HR, Karen Heaton, discusses how the ‘great homeworking experiment’ of 2020 is being used to shape the future of flexible ‘hybrid’ working at the University. 

This period of time has often been referred to as a ‘great homeworking experiment’. But when organisations normally adopt remote working they usually do so in a strategic way, with much planning and organising. Like all organisations the pandemic forced us to adopt remote working at speed and in difficult circumstances.