Flexi-time: a 'win-win' for both Beatrice Webb and Yvette Cooper

Extract: What could be more Brownite than extending flexible working time among Britain's hard-working families? The prime minister this week promised to do it for 4.5 million employees, in between fending off fresh attacks on his economic competence and media suggestions he spend more time looking after his own kids by resigning.

On cue yesterday, up popped Imelda Walsh, human resources capo at Sainsbury's, with a report by John Hutton's department for business (acronym, BERR) saying it can be done without much pain to business. A "win-win" in which families are happier at home and work, says research by Cranfield School of Management.

Full article on The Guardian.