Flexible working should be the norm for everyone | Susan Redden Makatoa | TEDxMacquarieUniversity

[@tfeya777]

Lovely idea. Instead companies and bosses do this: People that slack off at work get away with it. People that work hard to get things done and done well, get extra work put on them. In the end they have to go and make up for the slacker because the slacker happens to be buddies with the boss. No good deed goes unpunished.

[@lez-etheve]

Thank you this is so relevant and essential

[@GurpreetKaur-gs1di]

love this Susan and suggestion delivered perfectly too .I always thinking about . My sister-in -law in told me many times that they have this culture at job ( work from Home ) .

[@RiyaSingh-hz7kb]

So inspirational! Looking forward to working with your lady bosses!

[@mascara1777]

Thank you. I wish this culture in the workplace was around when I lost my dad. Flexibility could benefit workers with aging parents, too. Throughout my career, I've had to cover for so many women on maternity leave, which was fine because I assumed I'd get my chance one day, too. But I'm battling infertility and haven't had any living children. And I'm human, I feel bitter about it because I spent hundreds of hours absorbing the workload of others and like to know I'll one day get those hours back.

[@saritom1]

Fantastic talk, thank you.

[@mdm5216]

Only problem is Big business won't give that much control to the hired help.

[@weisssunday2545]

Requests for work place flexibility should be honored if they meet the standard of law and policy's. The laws are useless if they are Dishonored and denied.

[@lorascelsi8102]

Very smart ideas. The government and businesses in Australia seem to care for their people. Wish they could share these ideas with the labor department in the United States. Our hours have escalated to 65 plus hour a week for everyone. Thats if your lucky enough to have a job. One man works 80 hours while 3 persons go unemployed in the US. We are a little backwards as far as labor and childcare.

[@joelknapp5978]

This was a new idea when it aired. What’s the feeling now post pandemic?

[@weisssunday2545]

Truth be told, lady Boss the true backbone of society and community are working parents,male or female, still married or happily divorced. These are the true power couple's, not the top two percent of society. And both the lady, and gentleman bosses need the same thing. For the world to put it's resources into education, rather than prison systems. Law enforcement is not a corporation, but the department of corrections in service to the productive members of society, and the members who need to learn to work and exist with law's when in the community of others.

[@eac26114653]

We need to have more stay at home dads. Women need to insist that their husbands quit their jobs. Men, do your housework. Men, quit your jobs.

[@mikoda92]

+eac26114653 Fuck no.

[@abbagil]

Happens a lot more than you think.

[@NetSkillNavigator]

hahaha lol wtf

[@weisssunday2545]

No such thing as a non working mother. You have real mother's living a authentic life. Now some trophy wife's, one from okd family money, 💰 and are trust funded, or beautiful women who are willing to make a man the center of their world, by providing live in help, and personal assistance, think Ivanka Trump. And her personal staff. So authentic mother's simply need a educational system for their children, that includes teachers and school staff being paid a living wage, and a school that includes a hour a day of physical education, a hour s day for music and creative art, after school sports and activities, anti bullying policy's enforced and in school detention rather than at home suspension for children to have a time out to correct their disruptive behavior and still do school lessons. Parent should never do children's reports or homework. Single parent men need exactly the same services that working mother's do. Not everyone has a trophy trust funded spouse the majority of us are working parents. None of them I know are pandered to.