Increasing flexible working with Covid -19, and the benefit of flexible working environment Introduction Covid-19 has had unprecedented implications on human resource management in organisations across the world. One of the major HR issues in the context of Covid-19 involves responding and adopting to the changing working conditions that are bounded by social distancing and lockdown restrictions (Carnevale and Hatak, 2020). Minimising physical contact as well as maintaining social distancing has raised the issue of how organisational workforce can continue with their traditional working arrangements (Van der Lippe and Lippényi, 2019). HRM is playing a crucial role in navigating the vague present, as well as the unforeseeable future, by supporting people to cope with stress and continue with remote and flexible working, thereby enabling organisations to continue business operations with more agility during these uncertain times. ...