Agile working

[Motylog]

At work we have an Agile working policy. My understanding is as long as you do your contracted hours you are ok. I have seen people send emails and update spreadsheets at 7.30pm or even as late as 10.00pm and this is standard work not extra project work.

Though some managers don’t allow flexible working and will allow you to have an hour off for an appointment and to make up the time but if you want longer you have to book the afternoon off.

How does Agile working work?

In charity sector I've seen 'agile' also be used to mean when, confusingly.

It should be laid out in the policy OP BUT it can be role dependent. I worked somewhere with a really flexible, agile policy but there were core hours when you were supposed to be available and in reality the flex didn't really work for some teams who had to be available when their external contacts were available.

I just had a look and it says it is an Agile and Flexible Working Policy. It says in some parts worked hours according to business needs. Some managers want 9-5 so it’s not a flexible working policy.

Entirely depends on the organisation - is there an actual policy to refer to?

I've worked somewhere that had a core hours requirement of 10-4, but it was up to us how we wanted to start/finish around that as long as we did 7 hours a day

The flexible working part presumably refers to flexible working requests though? Which are a statutory right and have certain requirements to follow

Agile can mean "when the customer needs you to, for as long as you are needed".

I have had "agile" jobs where the official terms were standard office hours mon-fri 9-5:30 but with expectation for agile adaptions to the changing needs with TOIL/flexible hours to accommodate any ooh requirements, which effectively worked in practice as "you are semi-on-call 24:7. You are responsible for keeping track of whether you have done enough work in a day/week/month to legitimately refuse to do any more."