Flexible working

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Flexible working to give your business more
flexibility - more profit
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Do you

• think hiring workers on a flexible basis could
  help your business grow?
• have jobs youd like to get off your desk?
• have unpredictable staffing requirements?
• need people to work at peak periods?
• could use YOUR time more effectively to make
  more profit!

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• What is Slivers-of-Time?
• A unique flexible, web-based recruitment system
  that offers top up workers for short periods
  of time no minimum amount of hours
• As an on-line system it is available in all
  locations
• This increases the workforce that is available
  and attracts workers that would ordinarily
  not register with a traditional high street
  agency
• Allows you to select what workers you want
  when you want at the cost you want to pay
• You only pay for the time and skill you need
• Opens the market place to skilled people that
  otherwise would not be known to you
• Economical and responsive to needs of todays
  employers and job-seekers

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• Why Slivers-of-Time?
• 7 million people want to work flexible hours
• Creates a new marketplace for the benefit of
  both workers and employers
• Employers (buyers) can tap into specialist
  skills of applicants (workers)
• Shows transparent costs no hidden extras you
  pay for what you use
• 5 take up 400 million saving to taxpayer
• Source Accenture, Middlesex University and
  Oxford Economic Forecasting

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• Supported by
• Investing in Communities
• Cambridge City Council
• Cambridgeshire County Council
• East Cambridgeshire District Council
• Fenland District Council
• Huntingdonshire District Council
• South Cambridgeshire District Council
• Jobcentre Plus
• Managed by Anglia Ruskin Universitys Employment
  Bureau
• Investing in Communities is a strategic fund
  from the East of England Development Agency
  in association with Cambridgeshire County
  Council and the Greater Cambridge Partnership

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The skills of Slivers workers?

• Office support data entry, administration
• Customer service
• Telesales market research
• Leaflet deliveries
• Conference preparation
• Press, pr and marketing
• Care work with CRB checks
• Hospitality and catering
• Cover at peak periods

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Employer looks for workers who are available for
a particular shift at a particular location
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one click away.. www.cambridgeshireslivers.c
om wendy.carr_at_anglia.ac.uk or
claire.warburton_at_anglia.ac.uk 0845 196 2510