Only a fraction of UK job ads offer flexibility, study finds

Little progress made despite warnings to employers facing skills shortages that they are failing to tap into large pool of talent

Less than 9% of vacancies for decently paid jobs in the UK offer flexible working, according to research that claims the lack of such options is keeping millions of people in dead-end jobs or shut out from the labour market.

Analysis of more than 5m job adverts found little progress in the past year on offering more flexible options to jobseekers, despite warnings to employers who face skills shortages that they are failing to tap into a large pool of potential workers.