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Working parents, flexibility and job quality: What are the trade-offs?
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Winning the race for talent
Come along to this event where we’ll be discussing our top tips on how flexible working can help you recruit and retain in a post pandemic world, and particularly how you can [...]
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‘Huge barriers’ remain to effective flexible working despite greater government focus, report warns
Under government proposals, British workers will be able to request the right to work flexibly from their first day in a job, instead of after six months, which is the current [...]
2 in 5 working mothers feel they are held back from promotion, but many parents and carers say pandemic has improved workplace culture
New polling, carried out to mark the start of National Work Life Week (Oct 11–15), shows a wide gulf in how parents and carers are managing to balance their work and home [...]
Working Families Announces the UK’s Most Flexible, Family-friendly Workplaces 2021
Working Families has announced its annual list of the top ‘family-friendly’ employers in the UK. Now in its twelfth year, employers large and small from across the public, [...]
Working Families pleased to announce Helen Humphreys as new Chair of their Board of Trustees
We are really pleased to announce Helen Humphreys as our new Chair. She officially takes over as Chair on 1 September after her appointment was confirmed at a meeting of the [...]
A step forward for flexible working after debate in parliament
Today, Tulip Siddiq MP made the case to parliament that we need to bring in new laws to encourage all employers to design and advertise jobs as flexible. We are really pleased [...]
Tribunal decision will help working mums protect their workplace rights
Working Families has today welcomed a judgement from the Employment Appeal Tribunal, which makes clear that all future cases can take it as fact that women are more likely to [...]
Concern about future from UK working parents linked to final restrictions lifting
As we look ahead to the prospect of final restrictions being lifted and more workplaces opening up, a new briefing for Working Families’ #FlexTheUK campaign, partnered by [...]
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Our members
Our employer members are committed to flexible and family-friendly business practices. See a full list of our members.
Financial Services Compensation Scheme
Nationwide
Simmons & Simmons
Charles Taylor Plc
Anglo American
Financial Ombudsman Service
Drax Group
Santander
Gowling WLG
Royal College of Nursing
Norton Rose Fulbright
Linklaters
Government Legal Department
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Middlesex University
Cranfield University
Kings College London
Laing O'Rourke
Grant Thornton
QBE
First Derivatives
Rolls Royce
Yahoo
Unum
MUFG
BLM
DWF
BNP Paribas
Experian
Superdrug
University of Portsmouth
Harper Macleod LLP
Dentsu UK
Barclays
Sussex Police
MBDA Systems
Lloyds Banking Group
Sheffield Hallam University
Schroders
LUC
De Montfort University
NatWest Group
Brodies LLP
London Legacy Development Corporation
CDC Group
Hill Dickinson LLP
Ministry of Justice
Freeths
Imperial College London
RSM
Independent Living Fund Scotland
Surrey Police
Zurich Insurance
Northern Trust
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
ClwydAlyn
Mott MacDonald
DAS Group
Brunel University
Wellcome Trust