Modern Families
Modern Families Index 2020 – How do the UK and Australia compare?
Each year, the Modern Families Index provides a comprehensive insight into how UK working families are managing the balance between career and family life. Are employers being family friendly? Is care equally distributed at home? How are parents managing childcare while working? Now in its eighth year, the report answers questions like this and more,…
Read MoreHow employers can ease the school holiday strain this Christmas period
For many working parents, school holiday time can bring a mix of emotions – excitement at the prospect of getting in some fun time with the kids, but anxiety at the thought of how to organise that much child care if, like most, you’re unable to take time off work for every day of it.…
Read MoreEmployer-Supported Childcare: Why it’s needed and how companies can provide it
With November 20th being World Children’s Day, UNICEF’s global day of action for children, it’s an opportunity to focus on a major issue for many working parents in Australia – childcare. Affordable, quality childcare is one of the four family-friendly policies that UNICEF recommends workplaces around the world need to implement to ensure they are…
Read MoreNational Working Families Report 2019: Parents and carers need our support
Competing pressures of work and caring responsibilities are adversely impacting the health and well-being of Australian working families. Government and the business community are being called on to do more to invest in and embed family friendly workplace practices that support people to thrive at work and at home, and address gender inequality when it…
Read MoreFour family-friendly policies workplaces need, says UNICEF
We know that family-friendly workplace policies have a far-reaching impact. From the employees who use them, to the organisations that implement them, and the families that they positively affect, when parents and carers feel supported in their workplace to be able to balance the pressures and needs of both their career and home life, then…
Read MoreClosing the gender gap: manager support and family-friendly policies make a difference
The latest Women in the Workplace Report has been released, and it’s changing the conversation around the gender gap from the ‘glass ceiling’ to the ‘broken rung’. In Australia, the full-time gender pay gap is 14% – meaning women earn on average $241.50 less than men per week. The report, from McKinsey and Company and…
Read MoreParental leave and work-life flexibility on the rise but not enough: Women in the Workplace Report 2019
Fathers in the U.S. are taking parental leave now more than ever, but leave for women isn’t progressing. McKinsey and Company, in collaboration with LeanIn.Org, have just released their Women in the Workplace 2019 report, and the results give a detailed insight into what is happening for working parents – the good and the bad…
Read MoreGrateful for the Grandparents – Celebrating National Carers Week
Kiri Stejko with her parents and children. PAW’s Fiona Hitchener’s parents with her sons. With National Carers Week upon us, we want to celebrate the significant role that grandparents play in looking after the children of the Parents At Work team. On a quick poll, 90% of the team are supported by grandparents in some form for childcare…
Read MoreBreaking down ‘Carer Stigma’: How to recognise and support carers this National Carers Week
National Carers Week is 13th – 19th October 2019, and is a week to recognise and celebrate the incredible work of carers around the country. With over 2.7 million family and friend carers in Australia, many go unrecognised or are under a lot of pressure as they balance full-time careers with caring responsibilities at home.…
Read MoreHow to say goodbye to ‘mother guilt’: balancing career and family
Podcast: ‘Not Guilty – Balancing A Successful Career And Motherhood’ with Nicolette Rubinsztein and Emma Walsh Can a career mum have it all? And can we have it without the guilt? Nicolette Rubinsztein In this insightful and frank discussion, Parents At Work CEO Emma Walsh and author Nicolette Rubinsztein chat about Nicolette’s book ‘Not Guilty…
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