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Frameworks replace policies in family-friendly workplaces

Until now 'flexible' work has largely been limited by boundaries and parameters, but leading employers are replacing their policies with frameworks as they shift family-friendly practices up a gear.

Some 70 organisations are now certified as a 'family inclusive workplace' by Family Friendly Workplaces, and these employers now clearly understand "where that line of responsibility happens around employee wellbeing", says CEO Emma Walsh.

Among them is a key shift in how flexibility is perceived and offered, she tells HR Daily.

Previously, many would have had "a flexible work policy that says 'you can do this and can't do that' and so it doesn't read like a flexible work policy. Progressive companies are putting policy aside and not even writing a policy – they are coming up with frameworks and news ways of working"...

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