Services

Laptops shaking hands composite We are a social enterprise that can be your partner in the search for a more flexible workforce. Millions of people around the UK want to work much more flexibly than is possible at the moment. But they want to work at times of their choosing and reap the rewards of continued reliability.

These people can provide a motivated, ultra-flexible pool of workers. But you need new tools for managing this kind of workforce. You may need new processes so managers make the most of this new facility. It could be that it's in everyone's interest for you to work with other local employers to crack the problem of irregular need. By creating aggregated demand a pool of local people can be engaged with multiple businesses. Hard-to-fill shifts can be tackled by working with organizations like student employment bodies to cultivate groups of new workers who will only work ultra flexibly. 4-r

We understand this new world that goes way beyond current ideas of flexible working. With roots in think-tanks and technology companies we lead the world in creating an on-tap, motivated, hour by hour, workforce. Our work has been assessed and promoted by organizations including:

• The TUC
• IDE&A
• Local Government Association
• Association for Public Service Excellence
• Social Care Institute for Excellence

New possibilities

Having such a fluid workforce can create new opportunities that aren't currently on the organisational radar.

• Could your organisation for example benefit from regular mini-shifts (periods of work of less than 4 hours to cover precise peaks of need)? Currently that option would be so costly, unreliable and difficult to arrange you probably haven't given the possibility much thought. We can make it work for both of parties.
• Imagine your managers could constantly access dozens of extra workers, already trained in the needs of their department, at an hour's notice. How might that help the business respond to opportunities?
• When staff want to leave in search of new opportunities, or retirement activities, could you still benefit from their accumulated expertise by buying their spare hours around any new commitments?

Around your buildings there are hundreds of people eager to work in new ways. We are your link to this new strand in the labour market.

Services

The specific services we offer are:

SERVICE	DETAILS
Bring your organisation into the Slivers-of-Time Working programme	It costs nothing to access an existing pool of workers who want to work irregular hours. You need to be in an area where the programme is already active. TBC here to see the current list.
Analyse how you can best move to this new type of workforce	Think of a factory moving from traditional warehousing of components to the Just-in-Time model of production. The era of Just-in-Time workforces is coming. How do you make the transition? We can interview your managers, staff and agencies using our understanding of new employment possibilities. We will present a report outlining what needs to be in place to ensure a transition will go smoothly and the progressive steps for a risk-free move to ultra-flexible working in parts of the organisation.
Build a complete solution that involves technology, processes and, possibly, co-operation with other local employers	You may have an irregular and unpredictable need for extra staff. So will other employers in your area. That aggregated demand could sustain local pools of ultra-flexible workers, possibly trained by more than one organisation. If you are willing to act as catalyst for this possibility, we can engage with other HR departments and report on likely patterns of demand, supply and how the new pool of workers could be started and nurtured.
Provide software for ultra-flexible workforce scheduling	We have standard UltraFlexi software that will manage a very fluid workforce with new levels of efficiency. It can be offered to you as a web based service hosted from a secure datacentre near Reading, or it could be run on your own servers.
Map the bespoke software that meets your specific requirements on top of the ultra-flexible scheduling	You may have specific requirements that go beyond generic ultra-flexible working. With expertise in scoping new software builds we can write up the modules that you need on top of the basics and recommend technologists that will build to your specification.