The Future of Work is Family-Friendly: Five Years of Evidence, Impact and What Comes Next
DOWNLOAD REPORT Australia is at a crossroads in how we balance workplace productivity and caregiving, and the consequences will shape our economic future. The way we design work around the realities of modern families affects productivity, workforce participation, gender equality and broader family wellbeing. This is not a niche issue. It affects […]
A safe place to speak: Lion’s Domestic Abuse Support Network
Across Australia, leading employers are realising that creating safer, more caring workplaces means confronting some of the hardest issues facing their people. Lion is one of them – taking bold, practical steps to address domestic and family abuse as a workplace issue, and setting a new benchmark for what employer-led action can look like. […]
The power of manager support: how one conversation shaped a new parent’s journey at The NRMA
As part of Family Friendly Workplaces’ ongoing effort to showcase leading examples of family-friendly practices, we seek to highlight the lived experiences of parents and carers within Family-Inclusive Certified organisations like The NRMA. By sharing these personal journeys, our aim is to inspire other organisations to prioritise family inclusion and demonstrate the tangible impact that […]
Supporting Grieving Parents: How Baby Priya’s Bill will shape more caring workplaces
At Parents At Work, our mission is to help organisations become genuinely family‐inclusive workplaces not just through policies, but by embedding culture, compassion and practical support throughout every phase of family life. The recently introduced “Baby Priya’s Bill”, highlighted in The Saturday Paper article ‘ Baby Priya’s Bill set to reform leave laws for […]
The lessons for leaders after Fair Work’s WFH ruling put care in focus
Last week’s Fair Work ruling on work-from-home rights has done more than reignite the hybrid work debate; it has brought the care economy back into the centre of the conversation. Flexible work is no longer just about productivity, presenteeism or office attendance. When caring responsibilities are involved, it becomes a participation, equity and fairness issue. What […]
Using data to drive a culture of care: how AGL is understanding its carer community
With an ageing population, rising rates of chronic illness and disability, and increasing mental health challenges, more Australians are balancing work with caring responsibilities than ever before. Yet many employees don’t see themselves as carers or fear the stigma of identifying as one, which means their support needs can go unseen and unmet. AGL is […]
Australia’s Top Scoring Workplaces for Carers Revealed
This National Carers Week (12–18 October 2025), Australia recognises more than three million unpaid carers – the parents, partners, children and friends who provide daily support to loved ones through childhood, disability, chronic illness, ageing and kinship care. New data released from Family Friendly Workplaces (FFW) reveals a mixed picture of progress and opportunity. […]
When Caring Crosses Time Zones: The IFM Approach to Supporting Life’s Pivotal Moments
At IFM, flexible work isn’t just written into our policies – it’s a lived part of how we support our people every day. We recognise that IFM is a global business, and our flexible work approach is thoughtfully designed to meet the needs of both our people and the organisation. It’s built on trust, […]
From Perk to Power Play: How Flexible Work Fuels the Economy
As workplace productivity and flexible work collide at the centre of political debate, their economic importance is impossible to ignore. There’s not a week that goes by without media attention hotly debating the virtues and woes of the flexible work dilemma, as both government and business leaders alike are desperate to shore up productivity. […]
“There were only men’s toilet facilities”: how this male-dominated industry is becoming more inclusive
When engineering executive Diana Zagora got her start in the engineering and construction industry, it was the late 90s and family-friendly workplace policies were nonexistent. The sector was so male-dominated at the time, her first worksite – setting up for the Sydney 2000 Olympics – didn’t even have a women’s restroom. “A port-a-loo […]
