Michelle was a rest home worker specialising in dementia care before she gave up her job to become her son Harley’s (12) full time carer. “You know you’ll always be…
Hawkes Bay carer Tracey Dorward felt she had no option but to quit her job. Now she’s working again, for a more flexible employer. Tracey Dorward resigned from her last…
Software developer Donnelle Belangor-Taylor manages to juggle her 26 hour a week job with caring for three children, two of whom have disabilities.
600 people a day leave the UK workforce because they can no longer balance work and care. This particularly affects experienced workers between 45 and 64 who employers can ill afford to lose.
Unlike other countries, New Zealand does not have a clear picture about who its carers are. But Infometrics analysis gives a good peek.
Not every carer can keep working. Not every employer gets it. But if we bridge the worlds of work and care New Zealand will be better off. We’ll be the kind of society we say we are.
Greater transparency regarding the prevalence of caring is needed across organisations in NZ, to prompt business leaders to recognise the pressure that caring in all its forms creates across their workforce.
Almost 90% of NZ’s family carers are workforce age.
