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6 EdTech and Education companies offering flexible working in 2024

Find out what workplace benefits the most flexible EdTech and Education companies companies are offering.

16th Apr 2024

Discover the top 6 EdTech and Education companies that prioritise flexibility in the workplace. From remote first, hybrid and part-time and compressed hours, these companies are leading the way in offering work arrangements that accommodate different lifestyles and needs.

1. Flume Training


Flume was founded in 2010 by Raoul Monks, with the main aim of providing sales training that actually works. This is because a staggering 87% of traditional sales training doesn’t stick!

Benefits offered:

⏳ Open to part-time employees

🌡️ Enhanced sick pay – 5 Days sick pay plus 5 days half pay in a rolling 12-month period (after successful completion of probation)

🏥 Health insurance – Vitality Private Healthcare offered (after successful completion of probation)

🏖️ 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

👫 Teambuilding days

🧠 Lunch and learns

⏱️ Open to compressed hours

🏝️ Accrued annual leave – An extra day holiday per year of service (up to max of 30 days)

💰 Annual bonus – Company-wide bonus scheme for strong annual performance

Find out more here.

2. Up Learn

Up Learn was created to deliver a world-class learning experience that brings out the best in any student

Benefits offered:


🏝️ 26 days annual leave + bank holidays

🤸‍♂️ Work from anywhere scheme

🦷 Dental coverage

🤰 Enhanced maternity leave

👨‍🍼 Enhanced paternity leave

🌡️ Enhanced sick pay – up to 10 days

🐕‍🦺 Dog friendly office

🛄 Company-wide holidays/offsites

👫 Team building days

👫 Team building holidays

🚲 Cycle to work scheme

🥨 Fully stocked snack cupboard

👾 Hackathons

🧠 Lunch and learns

⏳ Open to part-time work for some roles

Find out more here.

3. Simitive

Simitive is a fast growing, privately owned EdTech company that delivers software as a service and professional services to over 60 universities in UK, Ireland, North America and Australia.

Benefits offered:

🤝 Open to part-time employees

⏱️ Open to job sharing

⏳ Open to compressed hours

⛷️ Sabbaticals

👶 Adoption leave

👨‍👩‍👧 Shared parental leave

🏖️ 28 days annual leave + bank holidays

🔘 Life insurance

💚 Mental health platform access

🤓 Language lessons

💔 Pregnancy loss leave

😎 Summer hours

🏝️ Work from anywhere scheme

🥚 Fertility treatment leave

👫 Team building days

🛄 Employee assistance programme

Find out more here.

4. HowNow

HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.

Benefits offered:

🏖️ Work from anywhere scheme – 2 weeks per quarter

🖥️ 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

💻 Work from home allowance

💸 Co-working space allowance

👫 Team building holidays

🧠 L&D budget

🎁 Wind-down Fridays. No meetings from 2pm-6pm on Fridays, for you to wind down for the weekend. A few ways our HowNow’ers use this time is to exercise, study, or spend some time with their family and friends

🎁 Workcations. We try to get our Mumbai and UK teams together to brainstorm in person over a company retreat. We’ve previously met in Goa, Turkey, and Copenhagen

🎁 Access to the very best learning platform out there (HowNow+) to keep you at the top of your game

🎁 Monthly socials, which have included mini-golf, Hijingo, shuffleboarding, 5-a-side football and Badminton

Find out more here.

5. Multiverse

Multiverse is a new tech-first institution that combines work and learning to deliver equitable access to economic opportunity for everyone.

Benefits offered:

🏥 Health insurance – cover provided by Bupa

🏝️ Work from anywhere scheme – work for up to 45 days/year abroad

✈️ 27 days annual leave + bank holidays

🏋️‍♂️ Gym membership

🤒 Enhanced sick pay

💖 Volunteer days – 2 days/year

🤱 Enhanced maternity leave

👨‍🍼 Enhanced paternity leave

👶 Adoption leave

💔 Pregnancy loss leave

Find out more here.

6. Perlego

Perlego's ambition is to become the world’s online learning library, a single place where learners can instantly access all of the world’s academic content for less than the price of a single book.

Benefits offered:

🤝 Open to part-time employees

⛷️ Open to job sharing

⛷️ Sabbaticals

🤱 Enhanced maternity leave – 14 weeks full pay. If you take over 6 months then we offer a 3 month return to work window (on full pay with hours laddering upwards)

👨‍🍼 Enhanced paternity leave – 12 weeks full pay.

👶 Adoption leave – 12 weeks full pay. If you take over 6 months then we offer a 3 month return to work window (on full pay with hours laddering upwards)

👨‍👩‍👦 Shared parental leave – 12 weeks full pay. If you take over 6 months then we offer a 3 month return to work window (on full pay with hours laddering upwards)

🏝️ Work from anywhere scheme – Up to 6 months per year

🏖️ 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

🤒 Enhanced sick pay – 10 days

💻 Work from home allowance

💸 Co-working space allowance

🐾 “Pawternity” leave

💔 Pregnancy loss leave

🥚 Fertility treatment leave

👫 Team building days

👫 Team building holidays

💼 Hofy home office set up

Find out more here.