Teachers to be allowed to WFH under plans to tackle recruitment crisis in schools

Teachers may be granted permission to work from home under Labour plans to tackle the recruitment crisis in schools. 

Headteachers will be told they can let their staff do marking and lesson preparation from the comfort of their own home.

Teaching staff already have time set aside for marking homework and planning lessons and Education Secretary,Bridget Phillipson,intends to put measures in place to make it more convenient for them to work from home during these periods.

Phillipson hopes the move will help women stay in the profession after having children as from 2022 to 2023 a staggering 32,000 stopped working in the industry.

Education Secretary,intends to put measures in place to make it more convenient for teachers to work from home. She hopes this will keep them in the profession longer

Tesco also told its admin staff in July that from September they would be required to work from the office a minimum of three days a week.

And prestigious big city firms are tracking the location of their staff to make sure they're not logging in from abroad.

Consulting giant Deloitte has been accessing the data of some Work From Home (WFH) staff to see if they are actually doing their jobs from abroad without permission - and it's not the only one.

Deloitte doesn't track its employees but is notified when the firm's data is accessed outside of the UK.

Their location can then be pinpointed using their IP address - a string of numbers assigned to devices such as work phones and laptops connected to the internet.

It is thought that more than six million plan to use flexible working to do their jobs while on holiday - with some shamelessly boasting about it on TikTok.

However,people grasping the opportunity to travel abroad and do their job at the same time could find themselves in hot water.

One Deloitte consultant told The Telegraph the policy is not 'unreasonable'.

They said the company is 'hugely accommodating' when it comes to flexible working but if staff are 'abroad without permission,I think that is a breach of the trust'.

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