Modern Families
Working during self-isolation: How to support yourself and the kids
As schools close or prepare to close around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic and people start working from home in droves, working parents are in unchartered territory, without certainty about how they’ll effectively manage work and educate their children. Many parents are worried, anxious and fearful – about their families’ health and about…
Read MoreEmployer Roundtable Webinar Event – An Invitation
The future of work and family – creating family friendly workplaces On behalf of APLEN (Advancing Parental Leave Equality Network), Parents At Work and KPMG, we invite you to join us for this webinar as we share highlights of the National Working Families Report and discuss implications for the future of work and family, especially…
Read MoreThe Pros and Cons of Working From Home
ABC Radio Interview – Richard Glover and Emma Walsh In this new and changing situation we find ourselves in amidst the recent outbreak of COVID-19, businesses are changing the ways they do things, adapting to the unusual circumstances, and putting plans in place for the coming months that will enable employees to remain productive and…
Read MoreLaunching a New Podcast Series Just For Dads Juggling Career and Family
“I found becoming a dad pretty disorientating. It changed my priorities, my attitude to work and had a big impact on my relationship, too. Trying to navigate that wasn’t always easy. But chatting to other dads often helped, plus I picked up the odd tip (i.e. wearing T-shirts inside-out until you leave the house will…
Read MoreModern 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…
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