Family Friendly Workplaces

Family Friendly Workplaces
Podcast Description
Welcome to the Family Friendly Workplaces Podcast, where we explore work-life wellbeing and its impact on families, businesses, and communities. Hosts Angela Priestley, Founding Editor of Women’s Agenda, and Emma Walsh, Founder of Family Friendly Workplaces, chat with CEOs and leaders championing family-friendly initiatives. Discover strategies to enhance employee well-being, improve gender equality, and boost organisational success. Whether you’re an employer or employee, gain practical advice and inspiration to foster inclusive, productive workplaces and redefine the future of work.
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The podcast focuses on work-life balance, gender equality, and organizational culture, with episodes examining specific initiatives like flexible work arrangements in the legal sector and gender-neutral parental leave policies. Topics include the challenges faced by working parents, the journey towards gender equality in leadership roles, and the role of technology in facilitating family-friendly practices, illustrated through real-life stories from professionals in demanding industries.

Welcome to the Family Friendly Workplaces Podcast, where we explore work-life wellbeing and its impact on families, businesses, and communities. Hosts Angela Priestley, Founding Editor of Women’s Agenda, and Emma Walsh, Founder of Family Friendly Workplaces, chat with CEOs and leaders championing family-friendly initiatives. Discover strategies to enhance employee well-being, improve gender equality, and boost organisational success. Whether you’re an employer or employee, gain practical advice and inspiration to foster inclusive, productive workplaces and redefine the future of work.
‘Family comes first’: How innovative executives in the pharmaceutical sector are creating family-friendly workplaces
In this special podcast series produced by Family Friendly Workplaces and Women’s Agenda, we will step into different sectors in Australia to spotlight the challenges working parents face while also speaking to employers carving out new ways of working.
In this episode, we find out how employers in the pharma sector are redefining corporate culture and making workplaces a space for workers to thrive, regardless of their caring obligations or gender.
Women’s Agenda podcaster Dinushi Dias has a chat with leaders at Novartis and Medicines Australia to hear how they’re doing it.

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