Supporting working parents during lockdown should be a priority for businesses. Juggling working from home and childcare can be tricky, and HR teams are well placed to provide support.
According to the recent Women in the Workplace study ‘more than one in four women are contemplating downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce’ as a result of the impact of Coronavirus. Increased work and life pressures impacting us all at the moment are reportedly overwhelmingly experienced by women, black women in particular.
In the UK, parents have been thrown back into homeschooling whilst holding down full time jobs. It’s time for employers to be supporting working parents during lockdown, and taking those good practices into the future.
This event will ask and answer the following questions:
- What is the impact of homeschooling and lockdown on parents at work?
- What is the best practice approach to the current lockdown with your parent / carers workforce?
- How can you and why you should implement flexible working effectively and inclusively?
- What can you learn from this experience that will make employers more adaptable in the future?
Learn from Gapsquare’s in-house flexi work expert and partners Flexpo and Osborne Clarke on how you can engage with your teams right now to ensure that flexible approaches for sustainable workforces.
