Benchmark Report 2025
In this year’s Benchmark report, we explore how the world of work has changed for Benchmark employers across the last five years, as well as throwing a detailed spotlight on best practice amongst this year’s Benchmark participants.
Benchmark Report 2024
This report highlights key trends and insights on flexible working, family-friendly culture, gender equality, and wellbeing practices among leading employers.
Benchmark Report 2023
This report explores best practice in family-friendly and flexible working amongst a group of employers who have entered the 2023 Working Families Benchmark.
Working Families Index 2023 – Spotlight on lower income families
The Working Families Index 2023 report, in partnership with Pinsent Masons, shines a spotlight on the financial challenges faced by lower-income families in the UK. The report highlights the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on families, particularly in terms of childcare costs.
Future-Proofing Your Flexible Workforce
This report outlines how the extraordinary work-from-home ‘social experiment’ during the pandemic affected working parents, and how organisations and line managers sought to minimise the impact of the pandemic through using flexible working to support their staff.
Benchmark Report 2022
In this report, we explore how Working Families employer members across the UK have put into place family-friendly and flexible working policies that have a real impact on employees’ working lives.
Working Families Index 2022 – Employer action briefing
Written specifically for employers, this briefing takes the findings of the Working Families Index and turns them into actionable recommendations to improve flexible and family-friendly practices across all sectors.
Working Families Index 2022 – Highlights report
The Working Families Index is the most comprehensive study of the experience of work and family life in the UK. Based on a survey of 2,806 parents and carers in late 2021, it examines finances, working arrangements, managing and sharing childcare, and personal wellbeing – and tracks their development over time.
Employers Benchmark Report 2021
This report aims to provide an overview of how some of the UK’s leading public, private and third sector organisations are working to support their teams.
Six months of COVID-19
An impact report about the various services provided by Working Families during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Flexistability: Building back better for the UK’s working families
The social and economic consequences of COVID-19 have ushered in extraordinary changes in our country, almost overnight. The impact of the pandemic on families has been multi-faceted and, for some, extreme.
Working through COVID-19 and beyond: the perspective from employers
In September 2020, we asked Working Families’ employer members to tell us how they had managed the many challenges the COVID-19 pandemic had presented.
