TL;DR UK remote-working tribunal cases fell in 2025, for the first time since Covid. Employment lawyers split on whether it's weaker worker bargaining power or the strengthened right to request flexible working that landed in April 2024. Both are probably true. But the important shift: employers now face real procedural costs for refusing flexible working without documented reasons. This post covers what changed in the law, what tribunals are actually ruling, and the framing that makes a flexible working request much harder to refuse. I've been building CVPilot , an AI CV optimisation tool for UK job seekers, and one pattern stands out from the people who've successfully renegotiated flexible working in the past year: they all wrote their request as a business case, not a preference. The tribunal drop is the signal, not the story. The story is that employer-side risk rose sharply in 2024. What changed in UK flexible working law Three substantive changes, April 2024 and early 2025: 1.…