Flexible working request letter: number, date, review.
A flexible working request letter should fit on one page, written tonight and actually sent. It names a specific arrangement with a number, a date and a review point. Then a second paragraph explains what your employer gains on the day they say yes.
Start from your chapter 4 price list.
Your flexible working request letter begins with the price list from chapter 4. Take the top item on the left, then write one paragraph describing the exact arrangement that delivers it. Be specific, not directional. For example, more flexibility means nothing, so a manager can grant it warmly while your week stays the same.
Make each flexible working request letter specific.
Here is how to ask for a work from home day: Wednesdays from home, starting next month, reviewed in twelve weeks. Instead of less admin, ask for the supplier reconciliation to go elsewhere. Then ask for the two neglected client accounts to come to you. A number, a date and a review point, all three.
The paragraph that gets requests granted.
Knowing how to write a request to your manager means answering one question: what does your employer get? Not why you deserve it, and not what you have done since 2019. Instead, name coverage, retention, output, or stopping the thing you are worst at. Also, send it by email, because a written request creates a written answer.
Write your flexible working request letter tonight.
Name the arrangement in one paragraph, with a number, a start date and a review point.
Add a second paragraph on what improves for your employer, then send it by email.
From the book.
I'd send it by email rather than say it in a corridor, for a reason that has nothing to do with courage. A written request creates a written answer, and a written answer is a thing you can hold up in six months when your arrangement quietly stops. It forces you to be specific, because you can't be vague in writing without noticing.
I Want to Start a Business but I Can't Quit My Job, chapter 13: Staying is allowed, and it can be the win
Questions about flexible working request letter.
Should a flexible working request letter be sent by email?
Yes, because a written request creates a written answer you can hold up in six months. It also forces you to be specific.
Why is asking for more flexibility a weak request?
Because the phrase means nothing. So it can be granted in full while nothing about your week changes.
What should the second paragraph say?
It answers what your employer gets from saying yes. For example, coverage, retention, output, or you dropping your weakest task.
Read the whole chapter.
This lesson covers one section of chapter 13, “Staying is allowed, and it can be the win”. The book goes further, with the full evidence, the stories and every exercise.
Lessons in this chapter.
- 01 How to ask your boss for changes: the odds favour you.
- 02 William Morris useful work: the three hopes test.
- 03 Four day week trial results: promise and limits.
- 04 Flexible working request letter: number, date, review.
- 05 Job crafting: add the good, claim the training money.
- 06 Self employed median income: the hidden hourly gap.
- 07 Flexibility stigma at work: the real cost of staying.
- 08 Part time request denied: what Rasmus Dall did next.