UK graduates consider flexible working 'less likely'

Britain-based graduates consider themselves to be less likely to engage in flexible working in the future, it has been found.

According to the results of a study by PrivewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), of those graduates questioned, the belief that a majority of work would be conducted at home was shared by less that one per cent of those in the UK.

In China, the figure was close to seven per cent.

"The resources that big companies will be competing for most of all in the future are people with the right skills," said Michael, Rendell, one of the partners at PwC.

"But there is a worrying lack of board-level thinking on how this challenge is to be met," he added.

Entitled Managing Tomorrow's people: The Future of Work to 2020, the study was based upon the answers of 3,000 graduates.

PwC was established in 1849.