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Working Families, flexible working and Coronavirus

At the very end of February, I did an in-depth interview with Jane van Zyl, chief executive of Working Families, the flexible employment charity. We discussed all manner of issues related to working culture: How tech can help you work flexibly, the challenges employees face when wanting to work flexibly, how many people have the

May 6, 2020 No Comments

Flexi working & Shared Parental Leave

Modern Families Index: Are parents ‘always on’?

Technology is a funny old thing. On the one hand it has empowered many, many people to work flexibly and fit economic activity around family life. As the recent 2020 Modern Families Index shows, however, technology has also blurred the lines between work and family life. Many working parents are ‘always on’ and this is

January 23, 2020 No Comments