Churchill Insurance's Homeworking Scheme has won the award for "Most Innovative Working Practices" at the Financial Innovation Awards 2001.
Churchill Insurance operations director Peter Horton said: "The Homeworking Scheme was set up in answer to a business need ... It also has the added bonus of offering greater flexibility to our people in their working life."
Churchill's 46 homeworkers deal with customers' car insurance claims and general enquiries. The scheme went live in March 2001, after a four-month trial with a small test team.
Churchill said results from the test phase confirmed that people working from home were 15% more productive.
It added that it was planning to expand the scheme into other areas of the business.
