Must Know Facts About Women and the Workplace:
We’re back with our weekly workplace facts! This time the topic of discussion will be on women and the modern workplace. Before we dive in, we will first share with you a visual representation of the stats we discovered on Business in the Community.
See below:
What you will come to realise by the end of this article is that the above infographic means a lot more than being just a pretty picture with some stats added to it! It goes beyond this and is actually reinforcing how the role of women has drastically changed over the past few decades. This has consequently been a very life changing experience for millions of female workers out there.
Let’s see how:
Women and entrepreneurship:
According to the article, it looks like women (4%) are not that far behind males (9%) on being engaged with entrepreneurial focused work activities. It’s also impressive to learn that there would potentially be an additional 150,000 start-ups in the UK each year if women set up businesses at the same rate as men. So, what are you waiting for ladies? Get to that boardroom and start generating potential start-up ideas right away!
Women and work life balance:
We’re confident the work life balance concept is a sensitive topic among several workers in this day and age including women. According to this article, “43% of employees believe that flexible working would help relieve stress, while 52% believe it would make the happier”. We’re certain a large percentage of these employees are working mothers, who find it easier to work flexitime hours instead of the fixed 9-5 Monday to Friday hours.
In fact, flexible working can also mean sometimes working from home. If this is the case then keep yourself motivated by creating an alluring home office. All one would have to do is invest in up-to-date office furniture such as high-end office chairs as well as going for one of the top quality office desks you usually find in well-established companies. This would be a great start to keeping your morale levels high even particularly when you’re working from home.
Working mums…get shopping!
Women and childcare support:
We have finally arrived towards the end of our women and work factsheet and this time we are talking women and childcare support. Did you know that “43.6% of mothers (with dependent children) in employment work full-time?” This is why getting the work life balance right with the help of workplace benefits like flexitime (see above) is vital especially for full-time working mothers in the modern working world.
Recap:
That’s it folks; for this week’s Calibre Office Furniture must know workplace facts. The key takeaway here is that women around the globe have now managed to dominate the corporate world more than ever before. It’s official, we’re surrounded by busy full-time working super mums, who have become gurus at getting the work life balance right.
Keep it up ladies!
We hope you’ve enjoyed the read this week! If you have any questions, get in touch!