Recession has changed working practices

15:00 24th June 2009

Working practices in industry have been irrevocably changed by the recession, reports the Guardian.

The CBI says more than 60 per cent of organisations have had to adapt to the current economic climate by changing industrial relations.

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Ideas such as introducing flexible working hours and working from home are just some ways companies have sought to retain staff during these difficult times.

John Cridland, the CBI's deputy director-general, told the newspaper: "There has been a remarkable solidarity of employers and their employees during this recession in taking difficult decisions."

"We have seen workers working with their employers to make the best of a bad job."

He added that without this cooperation the increase in unemployment would have been much worse.

The CBI is a lobbying group for businesses in the UK. Its mission is to help sustain and create conditions in the country for businesses to compete and prosper.