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Highlights for Employers: Insights from the National Working Families Survey

The intersection of work and family balance has long been a challenging terrain to navigate for both employees and employers. The recent findings from the

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Announcing Certified Family Inclusive Workplaces 2024

As we celebrate National Families Week 2024 (13th – 19th May), we are delighted to announce the list of certified Family Inclusive Workplaces as of

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Media Release of National Working Families Survey

Family-Friendly Workplace Policies Gain Cut Through, Yet The Caring Gender Divide Persists, With Stress Rising For Women – New Research Reveals

MEDIA RELEASE   The 2024 National Working Families survey uncovers the experiences of Australia’s working parents and carers in balancing work and family commitments –

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Morally and financially, why employers can no longer afford to ‘go-slow’ on tackling gender inequality

The recent historic ‘transparency’ reveals of over 5000 private sector employer gender pay gap data by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) in February is

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Count their families in to help close the gender pay gap

As the gender pay gap data released last week made clear, employers need more women in the higher-paying areas of leadership if they hope to

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Launch of the National Working Families Survey 2024: Shaping a Family-Friendly Australia

[SYDNEY, February 19 2024] – In a major initiative to champion the needs of working parents and carers across Australia, Parents At Work is proud

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Take ‘leave from meetings’, block time for thinking: How this Microsoft leader thrives with flexibility

Elena Wise doesn’t follow the traditional nine-to-five schedule, despite being in a senior leadership position.   Rather, she thinks about her days as having 24

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Time to end the lag in men accessing family-friendly workplace policies

Incredibly, Labor Senator Raff Ciccone became the first father to bring his baby into the Senate last week, two years after the Set the Standard

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2024 Workplace Culture Trends: What the best employers will do to care for their people in 2024

More bosses want their teams back ‘in the office’ and are expected to further crackdown on return-to-work mandates in 2024, despite compelling evidence that flexible

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The policies helping parents return to work by Euan Black

 

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Employers can and must work to eliminate domestic and family violence

We learn more about Challenge DV, an organisation working to support employers with their role in eliminating violence against women, thanks to our partnership with

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Dr Juliet Bourke

Navigating workplace inclusion during polarising global times

Workplaces that want to be inclusive must also navigate the very different viewpoints people bring to work, especially regarding complex political and global issues. We’ve

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Justine Knight is Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing at GPT.

Why GPT offers a $10,000 childcare allowance and ‘carer neutral’ paid parental leave

Justine Knight has experienced first-hand the loyalty an employee feels to an employer when they feel supported in their caring responsibilities outside of work.  

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A booming opportunity for employers to support care givers

All too often when the topic of supporting carers in the workplace is raised, the conversation quickly starts and ends with a focus on women

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Breaking the stereotype of male-dominated investor teams

Victorian Funds Management Corporation’s investment team is edging closer to reaching gender parity, now at 43 per cent, while across the full firm it is

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‘Part of our DNA’: The a2 Milk Company’s family-friendly approach

We learn more about the a2 Milk Company’s family-friendly initiatives and policies aimed at supporting parents, carers and women, thanks to our partnership with Family

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Leadership culture ‘makes or breaks’ even the most generous workplace policies 

Employers are still feeling the pressure to compete for the best talent in a continuing tight labour market, despite the challenging economic headwinds from the

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Reimagining the Future of Work and Family

Insights from the Future of Work & Family Policy Executive Roundtable Melbourne. 29th August 2023.    “The future depends on what you do today.” –

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Long live the office? The future for flexible work as the work from home era changes

More and more employers are issuing rules on the future of working from home. So what next for the office, and how will employers support

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Remote work, family and rising to the C-Suite

Claire McCaffery is Chief Human Resources Officer at Accenture who has been with the employer for 20 years – working flexibly and mostly from home

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How Workday elevated support for employee wellbeing

Melissa Bowden is at a unique point in her career where she’s excelling within an international leadership role, while also dealing with competing care-related pressures.

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Can Australia accelerate the take up of men sharing parental leave?

From July 2023 new parents will have more flexibility in how they apply for and share parental leave, as well as access to the new

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Grandparents leave and 18 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents: HCF’s ‘support from day one’ focus

We learn more about HCF’s family-friendly initiatives and policies aimed at supporting parents and carers, thanks to our partnership with Family Friendly Workplaces.   Angela

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How NBCUniversal deploys ‘Ambassadors’ to support women

Rebecca Heredia’s career in media and entertainment took years of hard work to achieve, including plenty of rejections and more than a dozen interviews before

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The ‘Social’ within ESG is an opportunity for Socially Responsible Workplaces

The growing interest in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing is pushing organisations to evolve how they operate to meet stakeholder expectations.   For the

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2023 Family Friendly Workplaces Insights

Progress update of workplace data Future Trends Latest Certified Workplaces   Today, Family Friendly Workplaces is proud to announce, as part of National Families Week

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Announcing the new Family Friendly Workplaces Advisory Group

We are thrilled to announce the creation of the Family Friendly Workplaces Advisory Group, a high-profile team of industry influencers dedicated to making Australia one

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The vital push for a “right to disconnect” in blueprint for workers with caring responsibilities

Australia has a significant opportunity to modernise how we combine work and care. Now a landmark Senate report provides a roadmap on how to get

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Cracking the code by focusing on family-friendly ways of working #IWD2023

FFW – IWD 2023 Emma Walsh video

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We must crack the code on women’s attrition in STEM

A strong and diverse workforce is essential across the science, tech, engineering, and mathematics sectors (STEM) to address some of our nation’s most confronting and

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