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

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  • Susan Redden Makatoa is an award-winning communications expert who has deep experience working with public and private companies, NGOs and government. She believes that there is still work to be done in promoting opportunities for women in senior ranks -- and one way to fix this is to make flexible work practices normal for everyone, so people stop feeling like working moms are getting special treatment.
    If flexible working is the norm for men and women, parents and non-parents, companies will end up with more engaged, satisfied and productive employees, Susan says.
    This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences

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  • @tfeya777
    @tfeya777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

  • @saritom1
    @saritom1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic talk, thank you.

  • @GurpreetKaur-gs1di
    @GurpreetKaur-gs1di 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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
    @RiyaSingh-hz7kb 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @lez-etheve
    @lez-etheve 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you this is so relevant and essential

  • @mdm5216
    @mdm5216 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @weisssunday2545
    @weisssunday2545 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @mascara1777
    @mascara1777 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @lorascelsi8102
    @lorascelsi8102 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    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
    @joelknapp5978 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @weisssunday2545
    @weisssunday2545 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @weisssunday2545
    @weisssunday2545 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @eac26114653
    @eac26114653 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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
      @mikoda92 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +eac26114653 Fuck no.

    • @abbagil
      @abbagil 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Happens a lot more than you think.

    • @NetSkillNavigator
      @NetSkillNavigator 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      hahaha lol wtf