Fair Work Week: How to Create or Negotiate Fair, Flexible Work That Works for You

Fair, flexible working is often talked about, but finding it might not seem so straightforward.

In this one-hour interactive webinar as part of the Scottish Government's Fair Work Festival, Lynn Houmdi, Founder of Flexible Working Scotland, co-creator of Making Work Work, and Scotland’s Flex Influencer, shares her own experience of building a “squiggly” career in order to inspire others to actively create and negotiate a flexible role that works in real life.

This session is deliberately designed to be interactive. As well as a presentation covering her own career story and practical tips on finding, asking for and sustaining flexible work, there will be extended time for Q&A and discussion. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own questions - whether about job searching, asking for flexibility, negotiating contracts, or handling tricky conversations with employers - so the session can respond to real, lived situations and experience.

This session will be recorded and the recording will be sent to you after the session, so please do sign up even if you can't make it live!

What you’ll learn

• How flexible careers really work, including a “squiggly” career story

• The bigger picture: how many employers are moving to fair, flexible work despite the media headlines

• Where to find genuinely flexible roles

• How and when to ask for flexibility

• How to negotiate terms that work for you (and your employer)

Who this is for

• Jobseekers looking for flexible roles

• People returning to work after a career break

• Employees wanting to renegotiate hours, location or patterns of work

• Anyone with specific questions about making flexible work work in practice

Format

• 1-hour live online webinar

• Approx. 30 minutes of content, with extended Q&A

• Highly interactive — bring your questions

• Delivered via Zoom (joining details sent after registration)

• The presentation will be recorded for all who register. The discussion is not recorded, to enable all participants to ask questions and contribute freely.

Ticket Fee

We have introduced a minimum fee of £5 for Flexible Working Scotland webinar tickets. This small contribution recognises the time and effort in pulling together the events and helps ensure an engaged audience for our speakers, which enables us to attract expert speakers for the Flexible Working Scotland community.

If cost is a barrier, free tickets are always available on request here.