Flexible Working: A reward or just good working practice?

When I began thinking about writing my latest post (And if you hadn’t already guessed, I do write them, not some PR company.) my intention was to provoke a debate about reward – “what constitutes a meaningful reward in a sales/commission led environment?" If I’m honest, it felt like a boring subject that’s probably been done to death and I wasn’t relishing putting pen to paper (or finger to keyboard). I did my research, read tons of articles and other peoples’ blogs, LinkedIn posts and it seems that the “challenge” is universal. Reward means so many different things to different people and it would seem there has been a whole industry spawned out of trying to give people extra feel good factors – from at desk massages to fruit on Friday, duvet days or even flying lessons .