Work to death
The focus of Flex Appeal – a campaign to push for flexible working for all in a bid…
more ›Going Dutch
Amsterdam daily Het Parool recently ran a feature on flex appeal, and how we’re trying to bring a little Dutch touch to working lives in the UK. Here’s the translation…
more ›Flex Appeal: the next stage
With funding secured for a major new piece of work, Matt wanted to get down in pixels exactly…
more ›Flex Appeal: Raising Disabled Kids
Flexible working is not just for parents, it’s for people. People with mental health issues, people with caring…
more ›Flex Appeal: Shift Work
On 17 October last year, I chaired a table on flexible working and zero hour contracts at The…
more ›Flex Appeal: ADHD
Flexible working is not about parents, it’s about people. People with needs that don’t fit into a 9-5…
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Writer Lourdes Walsh shares her initial skepticism about #flexappeal My first impression of Flex Appeal – a kaleidoscopic…
more ›Flex Appeal: Disability
Flexible working is not solely for parents, it’s not something only for ‘mummies that want to see more…
more ›Soft play, hard talk
Very excited to announce the launch of our first FREE non-panel, non-networking event. This event is not about…
more ›Work it baby
“Do you have any questions?” I remember being asked, aged 24, during an interview for a position on…
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‘Pregnancy’. When did it become such a dirty word? “I’m pregnant”. It sure isn’t in social realms –…
more ›Flex it up
PAPA PUKKA: Tackle the most common objections to flexible working (or resort to insults) with this simple guide
more ›Just a flex machine
We’ve flash mobbed, we’ve talked, we’ve emoji-ed, we’ve DM-ed, we’ve hugged it out and we’ve worked out there…
more ›Let’s talk about flex
There’s been plenty of chat and a fair bit of flash dancing action. (See our Lycra-swathed Flex Appeal…
more ›Flex appeal: Deloitte
Flexible working? Think ‘agile’ working, according to Emma Codd, Deloitte’s managing partner for talent. Here Emma talks us…
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If you are reading this, you’re IN for our flash dance this Friday 9th September at 12pm in…
more ›Flexi Mother Pukka
In the end, something had to give. Limited scope for flexible working at her dayjob meant Mother Pukka was spending a…
more ›Working it out
She’s a writer, a runner, a gin drinker, a brand consultant, a mother and totally addicted to the…
more ›Flex appeal
Most employers make parental life trickier than it needs to be, through a simple lack of imagination…
more ›Totally screwed
There’s a website called Pregnantthenscrewed.com. Yep, that’s Pregnant. Then. Screwed. Set up by the brilliant Joeli Brearley –…
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