Flex Appeal: the next stage
24-02-2020Blog

Flex Appeal: the next stage

With funding secured for a major new piece of work, Matt wanted to get down in pixels exactly…

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Flex Appeal: Raising Disabled Kids
12-02-2020Blog

Flex Appeal: Raising Disabled Kids

Flexible working is not just for parents, it’s for people. People with mental health issues, people with caring…

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Flex Appeal: Shift Work
09-01-2020Blog

Flex Appeal: Shift Work

On 17 October last year, I chaired a table on flexible working and zero hour contracts at The…

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Flex Appeal: ADHD
19-02-2019Blog

Flex Appeal: ADHD

Flexible working is not about parents, it’s about people. People with needs that don’t fit into a 9-5…

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TEDx Talk: Flex Appeal
06-02-2019Blog

TEDx Talk: Flex Appeal

How to be a Happy Chicken: our TEDx talk on flexible working

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Flex Appeal: Zero Hours
16-10-2018Blog

Flex Appeal: Zero Hours

Writer Lourdes Walsh shares her initial skepticism about #flexappeal  My first impression of Flex Appeal – a kaleidoscopic…

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Flex Appeal: Disability
10-10-2018Blog

Flex Appeal: Disability

Flexible working is not solely for parents, it’s not something only for ‘mummies that want to see more…

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What is Flex Appeal?
09-03-2018Blog

What is Flex Appeal?

PAPA PUKKA gets grilled by a sceptic.

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Flex appeal: Deloitte
01-12-2016Blog

Flex appeal: Deloitte

Flexible working? Think ‘agile’ working, according to Emma Codd, Deloitte’s managing partner for talent. Here Emma talks us…

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Flex appeal
07-09-2016Blog

Flex appeal

If you are reading this, you’re IN for our flash dance this Friday 9th September at 12pm in…

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Flex appeal
29-01-2016Flexible working

Flex appeal

Most employers make parental life trickier than it needs to be, through a simple lack of imagination…

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Flexonomics
16-12-2021

Flexonomics

Increased flexible working could unlock £55bn for the UK economy You can download the report here The second…

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Flex
20-08-2018

Flex

Flex Appeal This is the home of everything we’ve done or written about Flexible Working since 2015: what…

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Just a flex machine
06-01-2017Blog

Just a flex machine

We’ve flash mobbed, we’ve talked, we’ve emoji-ed, we’ve DM-ed, we’ve hugged it out and we’ve worked out there…

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Let’s talk about flex
01-12-2016Blog

Let’s talk about flex

There’s been plenty of chat and a fair bit of flash dancing action. (See our Lycra-swathed Flex Appeal…

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Going Dutch
20-03-2020Blog

Going Dutch

Amsterdam daily Het Parool recently ran a feature on flex appeal, and how we’re trying to bring a little Dutch touch to working lives in the UK. Here’s the translation…

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About
17-08-2020

About

About Mother Pukka is a portal for news, events, reviews and honest comment for people who happen to…

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Baby brains
15-06-2020Blog

Baby brains

The mental health of babies is too easily overlooked, writes Sally Hogg of the Parent Infant Foundation, especially…

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Work to death
14-05-2020Blog

Work to death

The focus of Flex Appeal – a campaign to push for flexible working for all in a bid…

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Beauty is in the eye
28-03-2019Blog

Beauty is in the eye

*First published by Soho House group*. Author of Sunday Times Bestselling book Parenting The Shit Out of Life…

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Not just one day
06-03-2018Blog

Not just one day

When did I quit my career? I think it was possibly sooner than I imagined; it was at…

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Work it baby
08-06-2017Blog

Work it baby

‘Pregnancy’. When did it become such a dirty word? “I’m pregnant”. It sure isn’t in social realms –…

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Age of consent
20-04-2017Blog

Age of consent

How do you feel about sharing photos of your kid/s on the internet? It’s a question I get…

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Gang(mum) style
07-01-2017Blog

Gang(mum) style

Pa Whitehouse imparted some advice when I was a feral youth: “Don’t look up to people and don’t…

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Show me the money
25-10-2016Blog

Show me the money

My card got declined in Tesco Metro yesterday. I’m not sure what was more traumatic: the 17-year-old youth…

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Man power
04-10-2016Blog

Man power

  This isn’t going to be a willy-bashing exercise; if it didn’t sound so wrong, I’d say it…

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Under the influence
19-09-2016Blog

Under the influence

I’m not sure what it is about the word ‘influencer’ that bothers me. It just feels a bit…

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The weakest link
01-09-2016Blog

The weakest link

I’m not good at apologizing. My viewpoint is generally right, whether it’s my choice of paint colour (it’s…

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Let’s get digital
28-06-2016Blog

Let’s get digital

As we launch our FLEX APPEAL – a campaign encouraging companies to loosen the 9-5 shackles and realise…

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Lost cause
18-05-2016Blog

Lost cause

“So what do you do?”. A question I could once answer with the gusto of a West End-bound…

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