flexible workplace

At Dicker Darter, workplace flexibility has been a thing for decades. They started with a foundation of ‘working mums’ and have been growing.

Flexible Working Day approaches, the timing couldn’t be more poignant as the global impact of COVID-19 grows to Herculean proportions around the world.

Monika Lancucki says a conscious focus, by all, on the assumptions that underpin our choices and decisions and the impact that those decisions have on gender equality.

Minister Stephen Conroy frequently reiterates that the NBN’s implementation can double the level of teleworking (or ‘anywhere working’) for Australian workers, while also boosting GDP and creating the equivalent of an additional 25,000 full-time jobs; 20% of those in regional Australia.

Just about every time I click on a YouTube video, watch television or open a newspaper, I’m confronted with federal government advertisements informing me that we can claim a non-means tested childcare rebate.

During a recent interview with Ann Sherry, who is arguably the architect of paid maternity leave in corporate Australia, she expressed her disappointment that the government paid parental leave debate has been “hijacked by politics” – a debate about privileged women versus ordinary working women.