How could employers make parents' lives easier? Share your opinions with top businesses

[MumsnetJobsTeam]

Mumsnet Jobs is on a mission to make parents' lives easier. From our Publish Parental Leave Campaign to our flexible-roles-only jobs board, we want to improve the wider understanding of parents' needs in the workplace, and make flexible working the norm.

On the 20th of August, Mumsnet Jobs will be hosting a roundtable event where some of the largest and most flexible employers will gather to discuss how they can support parents in the workplace. We'd love to hear your views on the subject -- and take any questions that you'd like us ask them.

Post below with one change businesses could make to ensure their workplace is supportive to working parents -- or post a question you'd like to ask our guests.

The answers from this thread will be shown during the roundtable, and the questions put to employers in attendance.

As someone who's taken some time out from a good career to spend more time with a young family, I would love the following to be more available to working families:

• part time/term time contracts. I know a lot of successful, bright women who have given up on good careers because they can't make their career work around that of their young family either financially and/or because they end up not seeing their children enough. My children have benefitted from having me drop off and pick up and are happier and thriving at school for it. We shouldn't have to choose between being there for our children or a career.

• genuinely more flexibility around part time working. My last role was 3 days but realistically, I was working 37 hours and being called to do things on my non working days. All very well employers being supportive on paper, but it has to follow through to the jobs - support, opportunities and leadership.

Thank you!

@MumsnetJobsTeam what happened to this? I thought the answers to questions and ideas would be shared on this board...thanks

Hi @runtobeavertowers, we put these suggestions and feedback to the top companies who attended our event on the 20th. We're now collating their responses and will share the outcome of the event on a dedicated content page, which we'll link to on this thread once it's complete. Thanks for the nudge though! We'll try to get it up ASAP.

Wonderful - thanks very much for the update. Look forward to seeing the responses.

@MumsnetJobsTeam could you please update us on this? Sadly it looks like something that is so important to women in employment is not so to business or MNHQ in helping push the agenda forward.