Flexibility is a powerful business tool that amplifies performance and productivity, engagement and retention, wellbeing and health and team inclusion.
DCA members can log in to access a detailed case for action for implementing flexibility in their workplace.
The rest of this content is restricted to DCA members.
To find out more about joining DCA please see below.
If your organisation has already signed up for membership, this will activate as soon as payment is received.
- Diversity Council Australia, Findings drawn from DCA’s 2023–2024 Inclusion@Work Index data set, Sydney, Diversity Council Australia, 2024.
- DCA’s Myth Busting Flexibility
- DCA’s Myth Busting Flexibility
- J. Coffman and R. Hagey, Flexible work models: How to bring sustainability to a 24/7 world, Bain & Company, 2010, accessed at: https://www.bain.com/insights/flexible-work-models-how-to-bring-sustainability-to-24-7-world/
- A. Bourhis and R. Mekkaoui, ‘Beyond Work-Family Balance: Are Family-Friendly Organizations More Attractive?,’ Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 65(1), 2010, pp. 98–117.
- DCA 2023-2024 Data from Index@Work.
- McKinsey & Company (2018) WGEA, Business Council of Australia, Women in Leadership: Lessons from Australian companies leading the way, p. 15
- TK Ray and R Pana-Cryan (2021), “Work flexibility and work-related well-being” in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol, 18, No. 5, doi:10.3390/ijerph18063254
- Swinburne University, “Flexible work supports mental wellbeing, but only with good leadership” in Swinburne University News, 8 November 2022, https://www.swinburne.edu.au/news/2022/11/flexible-work-supports-mental-wellbeing-but-only-with-good-leadership/
- DCA’s Inclusion@Work Index 2023-2024
- Diversity Council Australia, Findings drawn from DCA’s 2023–2024 Inclusion@Work Index data set, Sydney, Diversity Council Australia, 2024.
- Diversity Council Australia, Mythbusting Flexibility: Using evidence to debunk common myths and assumptions, DCA Sydney, 2018
- Dr. Sean Gallagher from Swinburne Centre for the New Workforce states, “flexible work is the new frontier for organisations to manage their employees wellbeing” in Swinburne University, “Flexible work supports mental wellbeing, but only with good leadership” in Swinburne University News, 8 November 2022, https://www.swinburne.edu.au/news/2022/11/flexible-work-supports-mental-wellbeing-but-only-with-good-leadership/
- Australian Government: National Mental Health Commission, Black Dog Institute and UNSW (SB Harvey, et al.) ‘Developing a mentally healthy workplace: A review of the literature’, A report for the National Mental Health Commission and the Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance, 2014 (updated 2019), p. 32-33.