Talent shortage? Bring women back to the workplace

'Companies have a real opportunity now to welcome women back, to nurture people who have been inordinately affected by the pandemic'

There was always an appetite for flexible work from mums in the workplace. These tentative requests have exploded into a roar from working mums all across the globe.

Pre-Covid, we used to speak about the motherhood penalty and the burden of the second shift once a working mum came home from their paying job to commence the management of the household.

Now, as we wade our way through the new Covid rules and restrictions, the uncertainty of the future of work, with children being sent home from schools and many parents really struggling with the juggling of it all, both emotionally and financially, it seems like, once again it is mum’s career that is suffering the most.