Media releases
09 Dec 2021
Flexible Working Day 2020: Let’s make flexible work the new normal
Media releases
10 Jun 2020
Research released today from the DCA-Suncorp [email protected] Index has shown flexible work fuels performance and improves employee wellbeing and will be critical in ensuring an inclusive recovery post COVID-19.
DCA welcomes the announcement of fully subsidised childcare for essential workers
Media releases
02 Apr 2020
Diversity Council Australia has today welcomed the Government’s announcement that childcare would be fully subsidised for essential workers.
DCA flex resources for Coronavirus
News articles
24 Mar 2020
The DCA team is working hard to continue to provide members with the services they've come to expect, with special resources and events on flex for COVID-19
COVID-19: How Australian Businesses Can Use Flexibility as a Business Tool
Media releases
12 Mar 2020
DCA has urged Australian workplaces to use flexibility as a business tool to help with continuity in the face of disruptions due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
This Mother’s Day, let’s ‘share the care’ to close the gender pay gap
Media releases
09 May 2019
In the lead up to Mother’s Day, DCA is calling for government and business to do more to address the gendered impact of caring responsibilities to close the gender pay gap.
Flexible working and the male carer
News articles
05 Jun 2018
On Flexible Working Day, we take a look at the troubling attitudes and career consequence that affect men with caring responsibilities, that were exposed by the DCA-Suncorp [email protected] Index 2017-2018.
Male carer ‘career trap’ stalling gender equality
Media releases
04 Jun 2018
Men who want to work flexibly to care for their families face high levels of discrimination, and are caught in a fault line that threatens Australia’s progress towards gender equality, according to DCA.
Seven myths about flexible working and how to debunk them
News articles
13 Apr 2018
A major stumbling block to enabling more people to access flexible work and careers are the misconceptions about workplace flexibility that abound. DCA has identified seven commonly held myths and presents facts to debunk them in a new Myth Busting Flexibility Tool.
Seven myths about flexible working and how to debunk them
Media releases
12 Apr 2018
DCA’s CEO Lisa Annese says organisations and individuals are discouraged from engaging in flexible work by myths and misconceptions. "Many employees want access to flexible work but are discouraged by a workplace culture that views anything other than full-time face time work as second rate."
Father’s Day: How workplaces can better support men to be engaged fathers
News articles
31 Aug 2017
In the lead up to Father’s Day on 3 September, DCA interviewed four senior executive men from DCA member organisations about what matters to them when it comes to gender equality, being a dad and what workplaces can do to support men to be more engaged fathers.
Four keys to flexible workplaces
News articles
21 Jun 2017
On Flexible Working Day 2017 DCA wanted to take the opportunity to revisit our Future-Flex programs and highlight the four elements of a Future-Flex mindset. Truly flexible workplaces where individuals and organisations can flourish take planning and structure as well as a team approach.
Designs on flexible work? Team up to maximise the benefits!
News articles
22 Feb 2017
Managers and employees in Australian organisations are struggling to implement flexibility in ways that actually improve performance and wellbeing, with a critical stumbling block being a failure to redesign work with the team, according to DCA.
Designs on flexible work? Team up to maximise the benefits!
Media releases
22 Feb 2017
Managers and employees in Australian organisations are struggling to implement flexibility in ways that actually improve performance and wellbeing, with a critical stumbling block being a failure to redesign work with the team, according to DCA.
Any scaling back of PPL is bad for business and bad for families
Media releases
08 Feb 2017
Diversity Council Australia is disappointed that the Federal Government is persisting with the scaling back of Government funded paid parental leave (PPL) as it is bad for business, women and families.
Changes to paid parental leave: bad for business, women and families
Media releases
25 Oct 2016
Diversity Council Australia is disappointed that the Federal Government is persisting with the scaling back of Government funded paid parental leave as it is bad for business, women and families.
It’s time to Flex: Embrace flexible working or flounder in the future
Media releases
14 Sep 2016
In the face of globalisation, technology advancements and demographic shifts, DCA believes organisations need to rethink their approach to flexibility and has released new research on how to mainstream flexibility.
It’s time to Flex: Embrace flexible working or flounder in the future
News articles
14 Sep 2016
DCA is delighted to announce the release of Future-Flex, a new way of thinking about workplace flexibility. More than just accommodating an individual’s needs, this new program is about re-designing work at a team or organisation.
Give Dad the best Father’s Day present ever – flexible working
Media releases
31 Aug 2016
This Father’s Day, Diversity Council Australia is calling on Australian businesses to make flexible work standard business practice for working dads.
Alternative billing practices for greater flexibility, diversity & sustainability
News articles
04 Aug 2016
Time-based billing has been the dominant model in the Legal and other professions for decades. However, an audience at DCA’s recent Diversity in the Legal Profession Network heard emerging evidence that this may not be the ideal way to do business.