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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)
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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
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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
NEW REPORT: Bridging the Work and Family Divide: Understanding the benefits of Family Friendly Workplaces
The Bridging The Work and Family Divide Report provides a strong evidence base supporting the benefits of investing in Family Friendly Workplace policies and practices and ensuring employees are fully enabled to utilise these.
It combines a detailed review of Australian and global academic research with stories from the lived experiences of founding partners and their employees.
The Report draws on data and insights from 70 businesses that participated in the inaugural year of the Family Friendly Workplaces initiative and are now certified, collectively these businesses employee almost 300,000 Australians.
The Report illustrates clear progress by participating companies on embedding flexible work and gender-neutral policies. It also highlights some areas of increasing need – notably addressing the complex pressures faced by carers and the rising cost of childcare.
Return on Investment
Certification provides employers with a benchmark of leading practice guidelines and a work and family action plan to embed family friendly workplace culture. 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.
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...
Grainne O'Loughlin
CEO | Karitane
Emma Walsh
CEO | Parents At Work
Melanie Evans
CEO | ING Australia
Alison Hernandez
Director | Randstad Australia
