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Be benchmarked
Compare your policies and practices against endorsed national standards and other employers, with access to your organisational insights report (inc. annual reviews)
2
Be inclusive
Create a workplace culture enabling all employees to combine work and family, with access to leading family-friendly policies, practices, and action plans
3
Be an employer of choice
Enhance your employee value proposition, attract and retain talent with your ‘Family Inclusive Workplace’ recognition badge
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Be a thriving workplace
Future-proof your workplace by improving employee work life wellbeing, gender equality outcomes, and organisational productivity
Why be certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace?
Certification provides employers with a benchmark of leading practice guidelines and a work and family action plan to embed family friendly workplace culture.
Emma Walsh
CEO | Parents At Work
Return on Investment
The return on investment of achieving certification includes:
Talent
Attraction
Your recognition badge identifies your organisation as a ‘Family Inclusive Workplace’ on your website, job ads, events etc. in a competitive employee market.
Retention & Resourcing
A family inclusive culture supports employee work life wellbeing enabling better workforce participation (inc. reduced absenteeism and turnover) and fostering higher loyalty and engagement.
Productivity - Performance
Improved diversity & inclusion outcomes result in above-average profitability compared to industry peers and reduces legal discrimination liabilities.
Employer Brand
To be recognised as a Family Friendly Workplace elevates your organisation image and facilitates connections with other certified organisations as future customers, suppliers or partners.
Why is Certification More Important than Ever?
Grainne O’LoughlinCEO | Karitane
Benefits
Certified Family Inclusive Workplaces
- Access to national benchmarks and your organisation insights report
- Recommendations for your customised Work + Family action plan
- Your own customised badge endorsed by UNICEF Australia & Parents At Work for your website, intranet, social media, job ads etc.
- Social media campaigns to promote your profile as an employer of choice inc. case study
- Invites to exclusive events with industry experts inc. opportunities to engage and share with other certified organisations
Better work life wellbeing for Employees
- Increased confidence, motivation & enjoyment at work
- Improved work-life balance outcomes and personal health and wellbeing
- Improved time management & productivity
- Decreased risk of discrimination
- Greater flexibility outcomes
- Support with Parental Leave
Better outcomes for Managers
- Easier parental leave transition for whole team and clients
- Encourage manager to have a flexible mind-set
- Enables managers to develop and negotiate win-win flexible work arrangements
- Support manager to promote gender equality
- Increased talent retention supports managers to manage resources
“A Family Friendly Workplace culture positively impacts the quality of work-life for every individual and contributes to the wider health and wellbeing of our society and economy, increasing productivity and reducing stress and inequality.”
DID YOU KNOW...
There is a compelling economic and social argument that investing in a family-friendly workplace culture is good for employees, businesses, and the wider economy.
of parents and carers
believe commitment to their job is questioned if using family friendly work arrangements*
of employees are actively looking or considering leaving their employer due to difficulties combining their job with family life*
of employees report difficulties looking after their own mental and physical health as they attempt to manage competing work and family responsibilities**
of employees are
not comfortable talking
to their manager about
the need for work and
family leave**
* Research commissioned by Parents At Work where 1000 employees from across Australia were surveyed about combining work and family (May 2021)
** Results from the National Working Families Survey 2019. (September 2019)
Why certify? Hear from our leaders...
Ann SherryChair | UNICEF Australia
Clare Harding
CSO | Deloitte Australia
