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54% of people who attended Flex Finance & Your Future believe employers are more likely to offer flexible work as a trade-off for a pay rise

The first Flex, Finance and Your Future was a roaring success. More photos to come. With about 120 attending, five speakers and one seriously awesome moderator I couldn't be happier.

We did it, the event is sold out! We'll be posting lots of content from the event throughout and after so stay tuned.

Today is equal pay day. It signifies the additional time from the end of the previous financial year that women must work to earn the same as men.

If you want to know if your CEO is a pay equity ambassador check out this link on the Workplace Gender Equality Agency website https://www.wgea.gov.au/addressing-pay-equity/pay-equity-leadership-0

If they're not on there, head over to DCC Jobs, they pre-screen employers on paid parental leave, pay equity, flexible working and much more.

So while there is still a need for equal pay day, there's now a very positive movement in the right direction.

A great solution to the superannuation problem.
Women retire on average with 40% less super than men. So it's fantastic to see part-time employees being paid full super.

We can't wait for the system to be fixed, that will be too late for many of us, we need initiatives like this to address the problems we're facing now. Well done VIVA Energy

Viva Energy becomes first Australian company to pay full super benefit to part-time parents for five years - Viva Energy Australia Viva Energy Australia (“Viva Energy”) – the exclusive licensee to the Shell brand in Australia – has become the first company in Australia to offer employees a full-time superannuation payment of 12% base salary for up to five years during unpaid parental leave and part-time work periods.

It's not just office workers who job share, check out this great article about an NZ dairy farmer who realised he had overworked his staff and used job sharing to increase morale and productivity.

Dairy farmer discovers the secret of a happy workforce Faced with a line-up of 'zombies' of his own making, dairy farmer Stuart Taylor knew something had to change.

The Flex, Finance and Your Future event has been designed to show you how to navigate a career break without the 'carer penalty'. Tickets on sale now. Use FLEX20 for a 20% discount. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flex-finance-and-your-future-tickets-35037848147

One of the reasons we're running the Flex, Finance and Your Future Event is for the very reason that women retire with substantially less superannuation than men. We can't predict the future so we need to take control of our own.

Super was designed in the '80s and '90s for a different model of work and a different model of social structure.

It was designed around the man working 40-plus hours a week, and was assumed that women would have a man at home that would do the earning.

Clearly not the structure we find ourselves living in now.

Women on track to retire with half as much super as men, study finds The Australian superannuation system was designed to benefit working fathers when it launched 25 years ago, according to a major study.

Melbourne people - The is back, October 16 - 17th. This is an event not to be missed! Full of people doing good in the world.
This year I'm one of the speakers on the 'Tapping the Talent' panel together with some amazing individuals. Highly encourage you to come to this two days conference if you can!

When industries complain of a talent shortage it's time to re-look at hiring practices. Here are my two cents worth on flexible work practices in advertising.

What adland talent shortage? Part-timers are ripe for picking - AdNews While adland bemoans the lack of talent across the industry, could it actually be that many of the fine minds and experienced ones are willing and ready, but they actually just don’t want the full-tim...

Flex work story 40: Buying leave to take extended holidays. I love this form of flexible work, often overlooked, and not counted when talking flex work practices.