Creating a Family Friendly World

Shaping the future of work and care policy for families to thrive. For societies and economies to thrive, businesses and countries must support employees through family-inclusive policies. Join the global movement.

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Setting a Global Standard for
Family-Friendly Workplaces

Founded in 2021, Family Friendly Workplaces is an initiative backed by employers, policymakers, and community-led organisations to improve inclusion, gender equality, and wellbeing outcomes for families and their employers.
This initiative is a call for businesses to be socially responsible employers by investing in family-inclusive policies.

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Family-friendly employers don’t just attract top talent, they enable employees to thrive at work and at home.

Assess your policies and practices against international best-practice standards to gain recognition as a certified Family Inclusive Workplace. Get started in your region

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Building Family Friendly Workplaces of the Future

Shaping the future of work and care policy for families to thrive.

For societies and economies to thrive, businesses and countries must support employees through family-inclusive policies.

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Supporting Employees, Empowering Leaders

Family-friendly employers don’t just attract top talent, they enable employees to thrive at work and at home.

Assess your policies and practices against international best-practice standards to gain recognition as a certified Family Inclusive Workplace.

Family Friendly Workplaces
is a UNSDG initiative focused on the achievement of:

Goal 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
Goal 5 – Gender Equality
Goal 8 – Decent Work
Goal 10 – Reduced Inequalities

At QBE we endeavour to embrace diversity and ensure we provide a platform where all our people feel supported to be at their best in the home, and at work. Our gender-equal paid parental leave policy, Share the Care, is a great example of our commitment to mainstreaming equal caring responsibilities for men and women. It’s not just the right thing to do, it makes perfect business sense, with family friendly workplaces delivering positive outcomes for society, business, our economy, and our families

QBE

Being a family-friendly workplace is fundamentally more than offering simple flexibility around family commitments – it goes to the heart of an organisation’s culture and the value it places on performance, wellbeing and inclusion. It’s about enabling people to reconcile work and life responsibilities by addressing systemic cultural and gender bias challenges that stifle productivity, engagement and equality in the workplace.

Emma Walsh

Founder

Family Friendly Workplaces

For too long, businesses have lacked a clear, evidence-based benchmark for what truly makes a workplace family-friendly. This certification changes that. By giving employers the tools to assess, improve, and embed family-friendly policies, we’re helping to create workplaces where parents and carers can thrive at work whilst fulfilling their caring responsibilities. In turn, businesses will see higher retention, engagement and productivity, and create a culture where employees feel valued and supported.

Jane van Zyl

CEO

Working Families

Family-friendly policies contribute to healthier, better-educated children, greater gender equality and sustainable
growth. They are also linked to better workforce productivity and the ability
to attract, motivate and retain employees.

UNICEF

At QBE we endeavour to embrace diversity and ensure we provide a platform where all our people feel supported to be at their best in the home, and at work. Our gender-equal paid parental leave policy, Share the Care, is a great example of our commitment to mainstreaming equal caring responsibilities for men and women. It’s not just the right thing to do, it makes perfect business sense, with family friendly workplaces delivering positive outcomes for society, business, our economy, and our families

QBE

Being a family-friendly workplace is fundamentally more than offering simple flexibility around family commitments – it goes to the heart of an organisation’s culture and the value it places on performance, wellbeing and inclusion. It’s about enabling people to reconcile work and life responsibilities by addressing systemic cultural and gender bias challenges that stifle productivity, engagement and equality in the workplace.

Emma Walsh

Founder

Family Friendly Workplaces

For too long, businesses have lacked a clear, evidence-based benchmark for what truly makes a workplace family-friendly. This certification changes that. By giving employers the tools to assess, improve, and embed family-friendly policies, we’re helping to create workplaces where parents and carers can thrive at work whilst fulfilling their caring responsibilities. In turn, businesses will see higher retention, engagement and productivity, and create a culture where employees feel valued and supported.

Jane van Zyl

CEO

Working Families

Creating a Family Friendly World

Supporting Organisations

Our Global Impact

Setting a Global Standard for Family-Friendly Workplaces

Assess Your Policies and Practices Now

Global Work + Family Standards

Building Family Friendly Workplaces of the Future

Evidence Based, Measurable Impact

Supporting Employees, Empowering Leaders

Family Friendly Workplaces is a UNSDG initiative focused on the achievement of:

Supporting
Organisations

Setting a Global Standard for
Family-Friendly Workplaces

Assess Your Policies
and Practices Now

Family Friendly Workplaces
is a UNSDG initiative focused on the achievement of: