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New polling for National Work Life Week
Results show a wide gulf in how parents and carers are managing to balance their work and home lives.
2 in 5 working mothers feel they are held back from promotion, but many parents and carers say pandemic has improved workplace culture.
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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 [...]
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Working parents, flexibility and job quality: what are the trade-offs?
Launch of research & practical actions to improve jobs. King's College London and Working Families report launch event.
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 [...]
Armed forces and small charities among winners of the Working Families Best Practice Awards 2021
Work-life balance charity Working Families has announced the winners of the 2021 Best Practice Awards. The awards celebrate employers whose stand-out cultures and working [...]
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Government Legal Department
BLM
Northern Trust
Surrey Police
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De Montfort University
MBDA Systems
Freeths
Santander
RSM
DAS Group
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
Harper Macleod LLP
Wellcome Trust
Experian
Brunel University
Charles Taylor Plc
Linklaters
Anglo American
Superdrug
Lloyds Banking Group
Unum
Zurich Insurance
CDC Group
LUC
London Legacy Development Corporation
Mott MacDonald
ClwydAlyn
Hill Dickinson LLP
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Laing O'Rourke
Cranfield University
Brodies LLP
Imperial College London
Schroders
Royal College of Nursing
QBE
Grant Thornton
Kings College London
Middlesex University
Financial Ombudsman Service
Norton Rose Fulbright
Yahoo
Gowling WLG
University of Portsmouth
Sussex Police
Sheffield Hallam University
Rolls Royce
MUFG
NatWest Group
Ministry of Justice
Financial Services Compensation Scheme
Independent Living Fund Scotland
BNP Paribas
Drax Group
DWF
First Derivatives
Simmons & Simmons
Dentsu UK
Barclays