For today’s tool, we’d like to introduce you to Flow, a Quebec-based job-posting platform. It highlights flexible companies and enables candidates to find the perfect job to reconcile their professional and personal lives. Its consulting service also guides employers towards a renewed management of their human resources.
What does flexibility have to do with equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI)?
To attract and retain the modern workforce, a culture of flexibility and work-life balance is essential. Enormous advances in technology have made it possible for people to work anywhere, anytime.
Flexibility is good for employers. It increases retention rates, boosts career aspirations and productivity, and reduces absenteeism.
When flexible working is successful, it’s because business leaders and organizations encourage employees to work in a way that allows them to give their best while managing the life situations that inevitably arise. And when flexibility is the cultural norm for all, rather than an accommodation for some, the benefits are clear, such as helping to attract and retain top talent.
Once you’ve created a culture in which everyone feels entitled to ask for the flexibility they need, you remove the stigma from people who use that flexibility. And as more and more people embrace flexible working, the focus shifts to the quality of a person’s work and what they deliver, rather than the hours spent in the office. This is good not only for inclusion, but also for the health and well-being of all employees.
We invite you to try it out!
