A large proportion of our UK workforce is made up of carers. Whether they are caring for children, elderly or disabled relatives, our research has found how stressful and challenging caring for dependents can be. So much so that many carers want to reduce their hours of work or leave their companies as a result of the conflict of demands. We know that different types of carers face different issues and therefore require different support mechanisms from their colleagues, line managers and employers. Not only is getting this right crucial for their wellbeing but it is also fundamental to business success in terms of retaining talented people in the organisation. This workshop is designed to help organisations understand the key barriers that currently exist in the workplace for carers and how to use hacking to make small changes to the way you work in order to be far more inclusive of parents and carers alike.

1. HACKING CARE
IN THE WORKPLACE

2. Hello
Daniele Fiandaca
Co-founder, Utopia
Nadia Nagamootoo
Avenir Consulting

4. What’s the one question you would
like answered today?

5. How would you define caring
responsibilities?

6. A carer is “anyone who has sole or joint
responsibility for the welfare of dependent
children, or elderly or disabled adults.”

8. Why do companies need to change?

9. 72.5%
Couple families with both parents in
employment
Source: ONS, 2018
Parenting in the UK

10. 55.8%
of single parents
in work
Source: ONS, 2018
Single parenting in the UK
64.4%
of single parents
in work
2008 2018

11. “Single mothers are least likely to be
employed when their youngest dependent
child is aged between zero and two – only
48.4% are in employment. ”
Source: ONS, Families in the Labour Market 2017

12. “64% of men said that work interferes with
their caring responsibilities and 47% of
men in a relationship said they wanted to
be more involved in caring.”
Source: Equal Lives Report, 2018

13. 6.5 million
Source: Carers UK
Caring for elderly, disabled or sick in the UK
9 million
(estimated)
2017 2037

14. “51% of those caring for a dependent
adult intend to leave their organisation in
the near future.”
Source: Equal Lives, 2018

15. Source: XpertHR, 2018
“Employees who have significant caring
responsibilities are twice as likely as those
without caring responsibilities to be in poor
health.”

16. “One utility company calculated that
supporting carers achieved a bottom-line
return of £1 million per year.
Source: XpertHR, 2018

17. What are the key barriers to care in the
workplace?

18. The Flexibility Stigma

19. How many of you have hesitated to ask to work
from home or leave work early?

20. “I started in a new role just before my mother
became dependent. I haven’t been honest as I
don’t want to be labelled ‘flaky’ in my new team.”
Source: Equal Lives, 2018

21. THE PARENTING PENALTY

22. Does flexible working = family-friendly working?

23. Does policy = practice?

24. Driving Change

25. © 2013 Cheil Worldwide
Feeling
Time
Shock
Experimentation
Decisions
Integration
Change Curve
Denial
Frustration
Depression

26. Breaking Down the Barriers

27. The Key Levers
Leadership Policies Culture Recuitment

28. Leadership Policies Culture Recruitment
Measurement of
success
Working
practices
Agile working
The Key Levers

29. Leadership Policies Culture Recruitment
Measurement of
success
Working
practices
Agile working
What are the key barriers for Carers?

30. Become a hacker
”

31. “A hacker is someone who seeks and exploits
weaknesses in a computer system or computer
network.”
Wikipedia

35. Hack
=
To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows
Wikipedia

37. “The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy
the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming and
circumventing limitations of software systems to achieve
novel and clever outcomes.”
Wikipedia

38. “The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy
the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming and
circumventing limitations of software systems to achieve
novel and clever outcomes.”
Wikipedia

43. Hacking = A State Mind

44. Naturally curious
Motivated by making things better
Enjoy taking calculated risks
Do not fear vulnerability
Makers, teachers and thieves

45. ```
YOUR TURN

46. What are you trying to hack?

47. Leadership Policies Culture Recruitment
Measurement of
success
Working
practices
Agile working
What are the key barriers for Carers?

48. 2 mins
Come up with a hack
on your own

49. 3 mins
In your groups, share and then
choose your favourite hack

50. Share your best
hacks

51. “Term time” contract

52. Put school holidays in
everyone’s calendar

53. 5 THINGS YOUR BUSINESSES
CAN DO

55. Write down one thing you can commit to in terms
of helping a parent or a carer

57. Our collection of Hacking
Workshops

58. Inclusion
Neuro-
Inclusion
Leadership
Empathy
Recruitment Vulnerability
Purpose Creativity
Productivity
Mental
Health
Disadvantage Disability
E-mail
Business
Care and
Parenting
Identity

59. COMING BACK TO
YOUR QUESTIONS

60. THANKS
daniele@weareutopia.co
nadia@avenirconsulting.co.uk