Episode 016: Emma Stewart MBE, Timewise

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How will flexible working impact the future of businesses?

On this episode, we speak with Emma Stewart MBE, Co-Founder and Development Director at Timewise UK, a flexible working consultancy. She has contributed to numerous government task-forces, reports and initiatives, focusing on how to encourage more people who need to work flexibly into the workplace, shape the labour markets of the future and raise family living standards. Prior to co-founding Timewise and Women Like Us, Emma worked in a range of development roles across the private, civic society and social enterprise sectors and within documentary television.

Along with Kevin Monk and Mariah Young, Emma discusses what flexible working means and how businesses can really benefit from providing this type of supportive environment. Having two-way flexibility can not only enhance performance, but creates a partnership between employee and the company. This episode is pack full of excellent advice for not only businesses, but for employees to not be afraid to have these discussions with their employer.

The main aim of SARD is to help improve the NHS, Britain's public health service. Healthcare and IT are ever-changing and we are interested in the ways that we can help it evolve with the growing population. SARD created a podcast because there’s constant change, growth even, in our industry and we want to shout about it – this podcast is essentially our proverbial mountaintop and we’re here to share all that’s going on.