Remote Working Policy Template (Flexible Working Act 2023)

What is the Flexible / Hybrid / Remote Working Policy?

Quick answer. UK Remote Working policy template aligned to the Flexible Working Act 2023 day-1 right, ISO 27001:2022 Annex A 6.7 and UK GDPR home-working data protection. Flexible working is now a day-one right (Apr 2024) — the policy needs the new statutory request process baked in.

The Flexible / Hybrid / Remote Working Policy is one of 988 single-policy templates available on PolicySuite. Each is generated bespoke to your business from structured questions about your operations — not a generic word-doc template you have to rewrite. Buy this single policy at £29.99, or get the complete UK Employment Pack (15 policies for £400) if you need the surrounding policies too.

What’s included in the template

• Day-one statutory request process under ERA s.80F
• Home-worker security baseline (network, device, MFA)
• BYOD & work-from-anywhere boundaries
• GDPR Article 32 security controls for home-working
• Health & safety self-assessment (DSE Regulations)
• Pay, working hours and right-to-disconnect expectations
• International remote-work tax and posted-worker triggers
• Annual review and on-site days policy

Statutory and framework references

The template is drafted with explicit citations to the following anchors so your auditor, tribunal or ICO inspector can verify alignment. Every reference resolves to a primary-source link — legislation.gov.uk for UK statute, iso.org for ISO standards, ico.org.uk for ICO codes, acas.org.uk for ACAS Codes, and legislation.gov.uk for UK Acts and Regulations.

• Flexible Working (Amendment) Act 2023
• Employment Rights Act 1996 ss.80F-80I
• ISO 27001:2022 Annex A 6.7 (remote working)
• UK GDPR Article 32 (security of processing)
• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (home-worker DSE)

Why this policy matters

In 2024 alone, UK regulators and tribunals continued to test the documentation behind Flexible Working (Amendment) Act 2023. The ICO issued over £56m in monetary penalties that year and the employment tribunals decided more than 12,800 cases where written policies were the controlling evidence. We see many UK SMEs lose disputes not because they lacked the policy entirely, but because the policy they had was generic, out of date, or unaccompanied by acknowledgement evidence. In our experience, a bespoke Flexible / Hybrid / Remote Working Policy sized to your business is the cheapest single line of defence against that outcome.

The three failures we see most often, for example across the 988 templates in the catalogue, are: (1) an unsigned, undated document with no version history; (2) a copy-paste template that names statutes the business does not actually engage (a tribunal will spot this in minutes); and (3) a policy never communicated to the people it binds. PolicySuite’s acknowledgement-tracking and version-stamping close the third gap by default. In our experience working with UK SMEs across UK statute and the ICO accountability framework, the policy that fails an audit is rarely the one that was missing — it is the one that was generic, undated, or never communicated. A bespoke policy generated from your own answers, version-stamped and distributed with acknowledgement tracking, is what stands up.

How PolicySuite generates this template for you

Buying the £29.99 single policy unlocks PolicySuite’s structured-question flow for the Flexible / Hybrid / Remote Working Policy. You answer ten to twenty questions about your business — sector, headcount, jurisdictions, processing categories, supplier dependencies — and the platform produces a bespoke policy in minutes. The output is fully editable, signed off in-app, and version-stamped so your audit trail is automatic.

Where the template references statute or framework controls, the citations are kept up to date as the regulations change. We track UK statute amendments, ISO revisions, and the periodic ICO, ACAS and HSE guidance updates so the policy you bought today does not silently rot in the back of your shared drive. When something material changes — a new statutory duty, a fresh ICO code of practice, an Annex A revision — you receive an in-app notification and a one-click re-generation prompt that retains all of your business-specific answers.

Single policy versus the full pack

A single £29.99 template is the right choice when you already have the surrounding policies and just need to plug a specific gap. If you need the complete framework set, the UK Employment Pack (15 policies for £400) bundles the related policies at a lower per-policy cost, with a pack-level audit-mapping table included.

Further reading

Read the in-depth Remote Working library page for context on why the policy matters and what auditors and tribunals look for. The framework pages UK Employment, ISO 27001 explain how this policy fits the wider compliance picture.

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