Supporting Dads
Five ways employers can help their team in lockdown
2021 has blown in with a big bag of mental health challenges. Lockdown 3 is the most... read more
best practice
Employment Rights
Is furlough the answer to homeschool childcare issues?
A growing number of parents are calling on employers to automatically furlough them while... read more
Paternity Leave
Tim’s Shared Parental Leave shows Lord Mayor is a modern employer
The Lord Mayor is a modern employer
After taking Shared Parental Leave Tim Wainwright thinks more employers ought to promote... read more
Fatherhood
From the editor: Let’s make 2021 a year of action and change
Let's make 2021 a year of action and change
It’s traditional for any end-of-year column to make predictions about what might happen... read more
Top Employers
Shortlist announced for our Top Employer Awards 2021
The shortlists for our sister site workingmums.co.uk's Top Employer awards 2021 have... read more
Flexible Working
David demonstrates best practice for dads and employers
David Bird works in finance, closes deals, checks emails at all hours, and so on. But if... read more
Paternity Leave
Commission recommends extra paternity leave and ‘dad friendly’ work
Better paternity leave and ‘dad friendly’ workplaces are two of the key... read more
Flexible Working
How to get more from your virtual meetings
“You’re on mute!” has a strong claim to the be the business phrase of 2020. ... read more
Career Advice
Five lessons from fatherhood that’ll increase your satisfaction at work
80% of the working population don’t like their job. And yet work makes you happy. ... read more
Fatherhood
Lifeed looks to bring parenting skills to the workplace
It’s felt for most of 2020 that just keeping a job and keeping your head above water... read more
Work Life Balance
Four day week lets dads ‘participate in care’
Once again attention is focussing on the potential of a four day week as the new normal. ... read more
Top Employers
Managers have changed their views on flexible working
The huge working from home experiment of 2020 has fundamentally altered managers outlook... read more
Top Employers
Keeping your team engaged when working from home
Ellie Wilson is Co-Founder of Virtalent, which provides Virtual Assistant services to busy... read more
Flexible Working
Lessons in making a success of remote working
Our latest survey found that the vast majority of working dads did not work from home... read more
Top Employers
Schneider Electric men share experiences on IMD
Siobhan Kelly-Bush writes about the steps Schneider Electric have taken to mark... read more
Paternity Leave
Working dads: Building back better
Here’s how we do it. Here’s a plan to build back better for working dads. In an... read more
Flexible Working
Men more likely to apply if jobs advertised as flexible
Companies that advertise jobs as flexible by default attract a bigger pool of applicants.... read more
Paternity Leave
Shared Parental Leave made lockdown easier for Santander’s Colin
A year ago Colin Woolliscroft, Head of Commercial Direct at Santander, was preparing to... read more
Fatherhood
From the editor: empathy may be word of the decade
Apparently ‘lockdown’ is the word of 2020. There was surely a long list of candidates... read more
Flexible Working
Anchor days and the watercooler conundrum
The War of the Worlds was the topic for a CMS seminar on working from home this week. The... read more
Fatherhood
Our survey findings capture working dads experience of 2020
Working dads are set to embrace flexible working on a huge scale as a result of lockdown.... read more
