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Flexi working & Shared Parental Leave

LinkedIn Changemaker? That’ll be me! (AD)

I have been sitting on a secret for weeks. Today marks both a professional and personal milestone. I can reveal I have partnered with LinkedIn to work as a Changemaker and do my bit to promote flexible working and ensure anyone with caring responsibilities, mums, dads or others, will be able to work this way

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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

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Flexi working & Shared Parental Leave

Accelerating Gender Equality in Business, Diageo style

What does the business world need to do to accelerate change and get women involved at senior ranks? This was the vexing question asked at a panel discussion organised by drinks company Diageo earlier this week. It is an interesting time to ask this question. In 2019, women headed up the European Central Bank and

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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

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Flexi working & Shared Parental Leave

Life Based Learning: Workplace training for mums and dads #AD

Is it a mistake to talk about ‘work life balance’? If we only live one life, why do we go to such lengths to separate the domestic and professional? Well, Life Based Learning (previously known as MAAM) is a life-based training course that highlights skills you will have developed as a parent so you can

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