A new Smart Working British Standards Institution document has just come out. It's called PAS 3000:2015 Smart working – Code of Practice. PAS – stands for Publicly Available Specification. Andy Lake of Flexibility.co.uk explained that 'It's kind of a strange designation as in the standard wording from BSI in the document's introduction they are at pains to say that a PAS is not a 'specification'. ... There is a history behind it, so if someone asks, I guess the best thing to say is that it's a significant step on the road to standardisation – and PAS 3000 takes the form of a code of practice, based on current best industry practice'.
The Code of Practice is 'intended to provide a strategic framework' which it does very nicely in my view. (This is a bit of a surprise to me as I was skeptical in the early stages of the value of a Code of Practice but now I see the finished product I am very happy to do a U turn). It covers Smart Working definitions, principles, leadership and vision, people, workstyles and culture change, environments, technologies, well-being and sustainability.