There is a peculiar contradiction at the heart of modern work. Employers proudly announce generous parental leave policies, pose for photographs beside awards celebrating family-friendly workplaces and tell us that people should bring their whole selves to work. Yet the moment someone actually behaves like a parent rather than an employee, something shifts. Quietly. Almost […]
A boss once told me that he didn’t think I had what it took to have a difficult commercial conversation with our 3rd party suppliers. Why? Because he heard me having a conversation with one of the third parties about his wife’s difficult pregnancy! I was young then, in my first management role and suddenly […]
When Reese Witherspoon suggested that women needed to start using AI more or risk being left behind, the internet reacted exactly as you’d expect. Some people nodded along, others rolled their eyes, and a good number positioned themselves somewhere between mild irritation and full-blown outrage. It was, depending on your perspective, either practical advice or […]
For years, working from home was treated like a cheeky perk. A nice-to-have. Something you earned after proving you were “serious” enough about your job. Preferably male. Preferably child-free. Preferably with a wife at home. Then the pandemic happened and suddenly the whole economy discovered that work did not, in fact, collapse when parents logged […]