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Automated systems designed for hiring a more diverse workforce can find candidates who may otherwise be overlooked due to health issues, gaps in employment or because they lack a degree or are from a non-traditional background.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V7GCMH4QCVF53MEDHBMVWCUBVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688379026709},"content":"But although ChatGPT is a useful starting point for a cover letter or for learning the background of a potential employer, recruiters say it is not a replacement for writing an application yourself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ATCTWVBAAJAOLDUK2EZGCIJFN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1688379026710},"content":"Nath, the Cambridge university student, says: “Companies are looking for a relationship with people there, like reaching out to somebody at the firm or a nugget of information that isn’t on the website. 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Normalising breastfeeding in the workplace is of benefit to mothers, babies and wider society.’","type":"text"},{"_id":"UXBWC6AGLBBZBJISBYVLWZEGEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1688375000434},"content":"“The new right to leave for medical care purposes will give parents and carers access to a flexible short-term form of unpaid leave, providing certainty at difficult moments, should they need it,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XDM7HOLDIBHTRM6QRZRDXPRVRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688375000435},"content":"Another of the Act’s main provisions, the right to request remote working, was recently the subject of a consultation process and the WRC is now working to compile the code of practice. 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In the end, they agreed a deal, recently endorsed by the membership, that involves the payment of €3,000 in “inflation compensation” with almost half of it in June and the rest to come in monthly instalments until next February, after which there will be a flat rate pay increase of €200 per month plus the 5.5 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TUU4HWKYEVDYJPMAGVUQTMHFOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688299147296},"content":"The one-off nature of the “compensation” element is intended to counter the argument that the payments would be inflationary while the €200 element is intended to particularly help lower-paid workers. The minimum increase will, it is envisaged, be €340 a month compared to the €500 initially sought. Inflation in Germany has been running at over 9 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RNK77SRQORE6PBWDUFTYMSEDVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688299147297},"content":"“It’s interesting but not without its downside on the worker side because obviously the portion of it regarded as ‘compensation’ is in a one off payment,” says Mr Callinan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VOBOCOKNVFC4NA72D5JLKFLBR4","additional_properties":{"_id":"WDJ7N44WIRG2VN7YCKDKWP7KZM"},"content":"Pat Leahy: Public sector pay game is now afoot but deal over summer seems unlikely","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WRIYWF6E7JC55H3J2KUYQ4Y42U","additional_properties":{"_id":"DQFWTZWCRVCP3C6K4A3FMNDJQM"},"content":"Cost of living crisis drives household savings back to pre-pandemic levels","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"MW4TENPA4VGM5PWOLHFPQ7WTTE","additional_properties":{},"content":"“But what I’m saying is, if you could get the combination right, you shouldn’t rule out that being some element of it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y7CKJWUKKFDOTIRBSRBJS7XKEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1688299147299},"content":"Mr Callinan has referenced elements of the deal at a number of recent public events. Preliminary talks about a successor agreement to the current national public sector pay deal, which runs out at the end of the year, have been going on for some time with substantive negotiations expected after the summer. The union’s position is likely to be the subject of discussion at this week’s Ictu congress in Kilkenny.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7J2GEYJ56BF5RN4JZELPQ6G2OA","additional_properties":{"_id":1688299147300},"content":"Asked, meanwhile, about reports in The Irish Times this week that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2023/06/26/review-group-to-be-established-to-examine-pay-increases-for-senior-public-servants/\" target=\"_blank\">a body is to be established</a> to assess the particular need for pay increases for higher paid civil and public servants in order to <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2023/05/26/retention-crisis-we-havent-had-a-pay-rise-in-13-or-14-years/\" target=\"_blank\">address recruitment and retention issues</a>, Mr Callinan said that these are issues at all levels and that if high awards are made, lower paid workers would feel entitled to the same.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LKUYSPXBPJAVZN5572OPDDISVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688299147301},"content":"“If what’s being said here is there should be some kind of process established to deal with the pay of senior people, at one level, that’s just a return to the arrangements that were in place when we had the review body on higher remuneration until 2007.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3QA4NZOPQBCE3KCLNOMYVZ5FZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688299147302},"content":"“But, how are ordinary workers going to look on this when they already see super high wages to a lot of people are at the top end of, not just the public service but business as well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2QHL5IXCNHFDNRH4SQHQ4N5VU","additional_properties":{"_id":1688299147303},"content":"“And at a time when people are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, I just don’t see how that makes any sense at all. 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And also to baby boomers, Generation X and Gen Z.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ES4SWOHFUJHOLFB4LAF76ICZD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883424},"content":"They are all impossible to ignore. Hardly a day passes without mention of at least one of them, especially when it comes to the way we work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DHYBYXEANRC6HEVA767G36RHWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883425},"content":"As I write, a scan of my inbox shows that in the past week alone I’ve had news that millennials are “the most supportive generation” in the workplace and UK baby boomers are the “only generation” still working at pre-pandemic levels.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHGYZ5MXTRDYFIFIDY2YYHQHOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1688306485598},"content":"Middle-aged Generation X workers are stunning younger colleagues with tales of all the things one could do in the days before work email followed one home, and the youngest Gen Z lot are allegedly struggling most to budget for Christmas.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C364WS5XGBBW3NIEONZBZR4LAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883427},"content":"The thing about all these developments is they are based on a grand illusion. The idea that we think or behave differently purely because we belong to this or that age group is deeply flawed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GAJFKWQA2BC7JIK4NFHIN5I5B4","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883428},"content":"Other important influences shape us: the impact of ageing, and so-called period effects that eventually affect everyone regardless of age, such as war, pandemic, or the invention of the smartphone.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UHZQRZ3AVRC65E4O2ILNYMDE4I","additional_properties":{"_id":"KUPESHMY35HXPIGAGP7SGAXF5I"},"embed":{"config":{},"id":"acast_podcast-65080","url":"/"},"subtype":"acast_podcast","type":"custom_embed"},{"_id":"F4O6CTKWBBG65DS7LL66M6A7AI","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883429},"content":"The profusion of blather about snowflake millennial narcissists and greedy boomer technophobes has little to no basis in fact. 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Millennials have more tangible concerns about boomers blocking them from political power and financial comfort.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HPT2KXWAXVBR7GLC4ZOX2FQ76M","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883433},"content":"Interestingly, animosity levels declined after researchers told both groups that popular stereotypes about millennials and boomers were unfounded, and reminded them that each group one day would be — or had been — the same age as the other.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGTHKYHPJJDKFC5MK73C5P7PXI","additional_properties":{"_id":"VABFPE5BRVCSND7F6RT5YFRMBI"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"VKMKZ7WFPNGLBIDHDU5ZSRHOZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883434},"content":"But the paper reveals a dispiriting fact about those stereotypes. As Stéphane Francioli, one of the study authors, told me, “the fact that people believe in them has real consequences”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6477RCND2RGNZHOXKJQ6P3RKAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883435},"content":"Scholars have been noting the defects of generational generalisations for years. A very good book, by Prof Bobby Duffy of King’s College London, came out in 2021.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZX2SCGXH6FGIDEIRV4S4XO47YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883436},"content":"In 2020, a report by the venerable US National Academy of Sciences specifically warned employers against taking generational stereotypes into account when shaping recruitment, retention and other management policies. “Doing so is not strongly supported by science and is not useful for workforce management,” it said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HEPYQCDIZVARBKSSPRKY4UNJIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883437},"content":"Yet employers continue to treat younger workers as lazy, selfish job-hoppers, and older ones as frail, untrainable change-haters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZKTVXIXAXBEQFLQSGONGDODURQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883438},"content":"So could artificially constructed assumptions about how we are supposed to behave at certain ages ever fade away?","type":"text"},{"_id":"DSNFACENJFDQ7GQDUNJA32IW7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883439},"content":"If Mauro Guillén, the outgoing dean of the Cambridge Judge Business School, is right, the shift has already begun.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MON27GK4KVFRDKVCCKJMH3IZ5M","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883440},"content":"In his upcoming book, Guillén says that after universal schooling and old age pensions took off in the 19th century, life began to be organised into rigid stages of learning, working and retiring.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FJ6OB247UFDPZE6RLYYLCEJVKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1688306485615},"content":"Now that we are living longer, with very different technologies, he thinks we are poised for a “post-generational” society of perennials or people defined by how they work, learn and live, not by when they were born.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PETKTFUH3FBZJDM3AJ6ZUPZYSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883442},"content":"There’s already evidence of people failing to act their age, he told me, starting with an explosion in the share of those over the age of 30 across the world who are doing some form of online education.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IE4RIUCB65B7ZHM4TLAGSD5HZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883443},"content":"Technology has driven that shift and another sign of the perennial: large companies run by young entrepreneurs in their 20s or 30s overseeing much older workforces. That’s been a rarity outside family-owned firms until now, says Guillén.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SOUQYXFPKNGUTFJO2KITBPS4UE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883444},"content":"Older people are, meanwhile, going back to some form of work after retiring and brands face pressure to appeal to people of different ages, not just the latest consumers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IVNQBM5MTFF3LPGIE3H7JSWSXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688297883445},"content":"I like the idea of the perennial, though I’m not convinced generational labels will ever vanish. Humans are hard-wired to categorise and generalise. It’s made us the species we are. Still, the world would be a better place if we kept a closer eye on reality. — Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2023","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"premium"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Pilita Clark"}},"name":"Pilita Clark"}]},"description":{"basic":"Today’s generational labels are flawed and divisive but thankfully more and more of us have stopped acting our age"},"display_date":"2023-07-03T04:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Pilita Clark: Move over millennials, perennials are on the march ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IKP7ISRLS5DYXGQMN34RVI6MQY","auth":{"1":"1034246ec811272a2afe1911d36f602423cb085e84c04d30299ef358cae1dce2"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IKP7ISRLS5DYXGQMN34RVI6MQY.jpg"}},"subtype":"columnist","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Work"},{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/work/2023/07/03/pilita-clark-the-world-would-be-a-better-place-if-we-kept-a-closer-eye-on-reality/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business/work","additional_properties":{"original":{"Podcast":{"podcast_logo":null}}},"name":"Work"}}}},{"_id":"NHXSUU2G4JDO5IRPXG7H2WI6TY","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":135,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/7213013/media/645f66829e87250a2a65f2b47451efe0_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/2023/07/02/coveney-to-meet-tara-mines-unions-as-workers-continue-to-seek-government-intervention/","content_elements":[{"_id":"UZZ7QGOUV5GI7GJOLUFQU44EMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1688312325132},"content":"The three unions representing some 650 workers at Boliden Tara Mines are due to meet Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney on Monday as they continue to seek a Government intervention aimed at persuading the company to reverse its decision to temporarily close the facility.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4V6IT2TIFRBSHKJQ7BTFMJGO6E","additional_properties":{"_id":1688312325133},"content":"“Top of the agenda, at these talks, will be what possible actions the Government could take to save the mine from a temporary closure situation,” said Adrian Kane of Siptu. 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Sometimes a small tweak is all that’s needed to reboot a flagging work mojo but other times it would take a seismic shift to dispel the nagging feeling of career ennui.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F5BTVZF6TZFUVBWYGOTTQGT5KA","additional_properties":{"_id":1687348397760},"content":"As you contemplate your next move with a long, cool drink in hand, bear in mind some interesting research about career progressions from a trio of academics from Emlyon (France), Wharton (US) and London business schools. 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With Odgers Berndtson typically recruiting for jobs with salaries from €125,000 it’s easy to understand why his company’s clients might want a candidate offering the comfort of familiarity, not a wild card.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7RZGVZBETNBV3BWPU6KXWH343Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1687348397767},"content":"“There may be a willingness to think outside the box to some extent in certain circumstances but at a very senior level few companies are overly keen to take the risk,” O’Donnell says. “What I will say, however, is that in our role as professional advisers if we come across someone who may not be a fit for a client now but could be in the future, then we will introduce them. 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The company had suggested on Wednesday it envisages 40 full time equivalent jobs to be maintained over the period of the closure with the unions arguing that when the facility last closed, at a time when it was significantly smaller, the corresponding figure was 140.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DDN46V5PDRFWBFHOC6DJKHFTFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1688048851205},"content":"The Minister for Enterprise, Simon Coveney, is also due to meet the unions involved on Friday when the issue of what Government supports have been offered to the company since the original company announcement was made earlier this month is likely to be raised again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YACCB3DHFJGSFAWVPGXX54D7N4","additional_properties":{"_id":1688048851206},"content":"Answering questions from Labour’s Ged Nash in the Dáil on Thursday Mr Coveney said officials from his department had met the company earlier this week and he, accompanied again by some department staff, had held talks with Boliden management on Wednesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHZ5LHURT5H47BJW4FBF33NKMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688048851207},"content":"The Minister told Mr Nash that he had received repeated assurances that the company expects the mine to reopen and that the closure is a temporary measure which Boliden puts down to a combination of raised costs and low zinc prices.","type":"text"},{"_id":"USI3VEDNKRFU7OGIL77BCCTFBY","additional_properties":{"_id":1688048851208},"content":"Pressed on whether there had been substantial follow up on the suggestion by the Taoiseach two weeks ago that significant help might be provided by Government in relation to electricity costs, Mr Coveney did not mention any specifics and said there were limits to what the Government was in a position to do.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LNGL7WOZA5A45KXUCGT276IPBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1688048851209},"content":"“The predicted loss for 2023, when the decision was announced a number of weeks ago that the company was going to move into care and maintenance, was approximately €100 million. 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I’m told it has become more common for people to look up “connections” made on the platform, no matter how distant they are in real life, who are now working somewhere they would like to join.","type":"text"},{"_id":"34EC3QDLGJBUDH7CLFKSEGLCFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1687089976379},"content":"If that is the case, it is in line with a wider tendency to contact total strangers on Twitter because you share a fascination with, say, 19th-century bond prices or ferrets.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V2EV4YFBQRB5ZHJSZJF7GZ34Q4","additional_properties":{"_id":1687089976380},"content":"There is of course another way to treat the problematic job reference request: guile. Anyone who has ever written, or read, a job reference knows there is a large difference between one that enthusiastically explains why a candidate would be perfect for a job, and one that covertly urges extreme caution.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGENTOTZCBG7TB22OICZBUAZUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1687089976381},"content":"A letter highlighting a candidate’s “doggedness”, “diligence”, “obsessive punctuality” and ability to “take direction well” may thrill a boss looking for a robotic jobsworth. It is unlikely to impress an employer seeking a creative, charming innovator with strong leaderly qualities.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ATLZVADR3VCCVJMB5TNJPCUICA","additional_properties":{"_id":1687089976382},"content":"This underlines a more serious problem with job references. They have a long and unhappy history of being unreliable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LBIF5GVDHJHXFAIUU2W2POUBN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1687089976383},"content":"A minor industry specialises in helping jobseekers ensure their old boss is not unfairly badmouthing them. One US firm offering reference-checking services claims 57 per cent of all the checks they perform reveal “some level of negativity”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T5QIGPR7SNBDJLBH5ZLXD7EI7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1687089976384},"content":"But some academic research suggests references actually tend to be excessively positive. This is mostly because applicants choose who writes them. Also, writers fear lawsuits or at least a nasty showdown if they pen an accurate but damaging letter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2A3246XCPVCDBLV7G4GF7HSF3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1687089976385},"content":"Relatively little research has been done on reference checks but one study from the 1980s shows references done for job hunters who had the right to see them were more positive than those that were supposed to be confidential. It is also widely believed, if rarely proved, that unusually radiant references can be written for workers an organisation is desperate to get shot of.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OHJ7GPIKDREN5GGN33UGOLGV3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1687089976386},"content":"For all these reasons, companies that can afford it pay considerable sums to corporate intelligence companies to check whether a candidate measures up to any references or recommendations for them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BYVF7B7L75FEVMTBSC75SDCHO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1687089976387},"content":"This makes sense for very senior roles paying very large salaries. By some estimates, it can cost up to 200 per cent of the salary of a top executive to replace them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SY5HW4SD3FH4BCQH4G7J6AX7LM","additional_properties":{"_id":1687089976388},"content":"Most companies do not have the resources to hire outside investigators. Many conduct their own checks. Some make informal inquiries. 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Her timing couldn’t have been better. Her dad Kevin Bennett stitched together leave to be at home for the first month of her life, and was about to return to work. Then widespread home-working was announced. Three years later, he doubts he will work in an office full-time again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X67L2622YBANPLKQHQ7KKKQ7KM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423993},"content":"The hour commute from his home near Ashbourne to his employer, Vodafone based in Sandyford, disappeared. “That extra time in the morning where I didn’t have to get up to sit in traffic – it gave a little bit of respite for me to say to my wife Aisling, I’ll just take her off you and you go back to sleep.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3HECVEMJW5HD7P7AFRPBN4C3JU","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423994},"content":"Aisling was breastfeeding and Kevin being at home made a huge difference. “To be able to bring her food when she is stuck on the couch with the baby feeding constantly... If I had a meeting, I was able to duck out and boil a kettle, drop a cup of tea and a sandwich into her and be back again. It didn’t disrupt my day and yet it was her being fed and not going without food with a baby sitting on top of her. That flexibility was priceless.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QL3V275YLFC2DJHMCSITMZ4JOU","additional_properties":{"_id":"CP5G6XCRVZEPZC7C3YHC7ISU4Q"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"AUHGCO6ANRATTNBLLIIJAB5CUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423995},"content":"Vodafone has a hybrid working policy now of two days in the office and three from home. When his youngest daughter Daisy was born last August, Kevin benefited from a new company policy of 16 weeks’ leave, fully paid, for any birthing partner.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JDHZNLGCNJA7TGHUVUTDIHI3R4","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423996},"content":"With two young children and his older daughter Chloe (15) from a previous relationship doing her Junior Cycle exams, the company supports him to work from home full-time for now. “If Chloe is staying with us for a couple of nights, I can drop her to school,” says Kevin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3Y2QOK6T4NDI3MZGQPXIUFQEII","additional_properties":{"_id":"NQCHXRGE75BRZDG6MHZYQG7NGY"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"JU4N6HGBPBE3DH5XAO6KSONSRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1686646096324},"content":"“I’ve always been a very hands-on dad and I get stuck in with the housework, but being at home just took it to a different level. The bond I have now with the girls, I know it’s better than it could have ever been.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PDITDXGVXFHO5FZCJFSFEE3BPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423998},"content":"“Seeing Emily in the middle of the day when she is home from Montessori, or I can pop out at lunch and pick her up – she loves that. Being able to say, I’ll take my lunch now, and just sitting out in the garden and blowing bubbles with them for 10 minutes. Then I’m back into work. It’s a constant for them in their lives, but also for me.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4VEUJR7OANDF7H22PICONY3Q4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1686243992238},"content":"Fathers like Kevin who are now working from home and spending more time with their children could be the pandemic’s silver lining. Irish dads have generally lagged behind their European counterparts on sharing childcare responsibilities, but those who can now work remotely – for companies which have embraced remote and hybrid arrangements for employees – are embracing the opportunity to even things up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OHLFHHRVBRH4RDWKUT4RMQJKRM","additional_properties":{"_id":"L4BBJSILUFDAVPWKQVNGBZOKTQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"53X5OGAGSNFBRFVKVMTJKLCUPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423936},"content":"Home working dads are now renavigating fatherhood. “They never had permission to do this, and Covid, in some ways, forced this permission, and no one wants to give it up,” says Dr Anne Kehoe, president of the Psychological Society of Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3OBIG6O5KJHHNJVG4VOGRFK3TQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423937},"content":"Five years ago, people didn’t question why a dad worked full-time outside the home and was never really there, says Kehoe. Gender pay gaps, leave skewed towards women and expensive childcare all combine to support the male breadwinner model.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RQNLOOTZKNF2BH2U6QEI5P6YYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"3HJNCJOS4RHK7KFPT4H4USQAOA"},"content":"‘This has been a game-changer for me’: how a room in the garden can transform your family life ","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"BTX3QGZCBJGWFH4VNNGJE6UUJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423938},"content":"Women in Ireland have done much more of the childcare, with 95 per cent of them doing some on a daily basis compared to 78 per cent of men, according to Eurostat figures for 2016. Among Swedish, Slovenian, Portuguese, Finnish and Dutch parents, the men did more than Irish men, and the childcare was more evenly shared.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZYPI6LMS3JFLRK6OAMD62NISZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423939},"content":"Uptake of paid and unpaid leave by new fathers here has been sluggish. Of fathers entitled to paternity benefit in 2018, almost half didn’t take it, according to the CSO.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AT5HQO6LHJAPBHFBAF6IVLBBAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423940},"content":"The pandemic, however, forced many fathers to stay at home. They could still work and get paid, but being there has shown them what they have missed with their kids, says Kehoe.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GH5E3OYKU5FJVAGECEYDAHNC5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1686243992244},"content":"The 2022 Census figures published earlier this month show that approximately one in three people work from home at least part of the week, rising to four in five for business, media and public service professionals. It’s the first time the question has been asked on the Census, but there is no doubt there has been a massive shift towards more flexible work arrangements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DKXKIOCQ7RADLCY73X6PK2M5ZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZOQA4H5SUBDQRNXOLAW4EFIDRA"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"AT5HQO6LHJAPBHFBAF6IVLBBAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423940},"content":"“Many of the dads have been at home for three years now. They can’t go back, they don’t want to go back, because they themselves can feel the magic,” Kehoe says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJF3HODMJ5EVNC6G23ZHLTZ4OU","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423944},"content":"As well as increasing gender equality in the home and in the labour market, dads who do more at home benefit their kids too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKMOOEAWW5HXVC64KGPAAUAUOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423942},"content":"“A second parent will always bring a different energy. 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He did mornings with the children unless his wife Corinna was off.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OMPS76SQ6JB3FFRZJ4Z3G6M5CY","additional_properties":{"_id":"7QRLM45APRHOHB67R6U3SVCXXU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CCATJGZ6QBEIFJ2T2GOHOXAPSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423947},"content":"Leaving his Knocklyon home at 7.15am, he dropped Hannah and Jacob to a childminder who would bring them to school. He then dropped Finn to creche. His wife was already at work at Crumlin hospital. If Clive cycled to his job with the ESB in East Wall Road, it took 45 minutes. On the bus, it was an hour and a half.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BXBMT5HMZBB2RNSV63PU2EPNJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423948},"content":"“They probably saw very little of us,” says Clive of his children. The same was true for hundreds of thousands of other families.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BE2D4WTQMZCH3KADINO2KNXP4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423949},"content":"After three years of remote working, life has changed fundamentally. ”The idea of going back to it would be horrendous,” he says. “Both of us get a lot more time with the kids.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WEBMYN5BFVFAFGCPVBQUIM6FTU","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423950},"content":"Now he’s in the office just two days a week and there are days when both he and his wife work from home.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7Y4R6H7VXVGP3HYTWNVPZX2VNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423951},"content":"“We were rushing them out the door, getting them to someone else’s house. The kids are getting trucked around an awful lot less now. They are having breakfast in their own house every morning,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHAVPSCGHNC2NK56RTNT5Z2HPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423952},"content":"Clive can drop the children to school and be back at his home office by 8.45am. On Mondays and Tuesdays, he collects Hannah, (11) and Jacob (9) from school. He gets back to work, the kids do their homework themselves and can watch TV. Six-year-old Finn goes to afterschool.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3Z5TF5BHMVEC3I6UBBM6PDSZLU","additional_properties":{"_id":"2HIPH6SQXZDPDLFXBI2ONR7CRA"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"NCBMOQRTMZGQPBFF5P7QF6W7UA","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423955},"content":"Foregoing a commute gives him three extra hours in a day. He has more quality time with his children. “Before, I only saw them when you were dragging them out of bed, and when you got home they were getting ready for bed and they were tired. 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Not so long ago, it was mostly mothers asking for – or biting their tongues around – work flexibility.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5W7LOAVMQVEM3PW3AZVR3NNOG4","additional_properties":{"_id":"J3ZKNFFLYJAHXOLUFNAVLID7XI"},"content":"The lockdown has shown employers there are benefits to remote working","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"Y5FP4EDNMNE4HEIPSRN2KRU4AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423961},"content":"The ESB has embraced hybrid working, says Clive, and staff are more emboldened about speaking up. “There are some incredible women in here who are willing to speak up around that. They have inspired others.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ZFXGG3IEBFQPDKPPPQ62MJ2Q4","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423962},"content":"Dads who share childcare responsibilities are speaking up more now too. Clive recalls an instance where someone asked whether he could attend a late meeting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RHD7KULZLJEADIIOFZZUP543AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZQR5M6K5SNER3PCSOHMKHBO4IE"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"WXTJFXFBBVC2NL7HBER6O5PG5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423963},"content":"“I said, actually I have to check with my wife. Somebody came up to me afterwards and said: ‘I’m so glad you spoke up there’. 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He was astounded when it garnered 5.5 million impressions and 65,000 likes worldwide. It’s a topic close to his heart.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VT3QCHGBIRELHDP5SPZTKQOL5A","additional_properties":{"_id":"MDRTS255YBALTB4U2U6RJDEW5M"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"HHMZXIUZTBEABBFDHFC3LQWK7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1686223224666},"content":"He was in the Naval Service when his oldest child daughter Katie was born. “I missed an awful lot of her early years. Her first steps – all of that stuff. I left the Navy mostly because of that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5BVXJEYFLZB3DH6SEDVTX2IN7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423967},"content":"Katie is now 16. Paul went on to have Anthony (15) and Ava (7) with his partner Nina. In his subsequent job, a commute meant doing the school run wasn’t an option. He now works for sales and customer support company Otonomee. Everyone works remotely.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2NCZJIT2LBBB3IVRUZTQMT34FI","additional_properties":{"_id":"GPQMT6SNNVAU7GOM7IFJSDJI6I"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"GBGG6QVSCJEEFNHSXJ3YL3X24A","additional_properties":{"_id":1686215423968},"content":"“It has completely changed my life. It has changed my family’s life. For the first time, I am able to collect my daughters and my son from school,” says Paul. “My mother was sick last year and she was here with us and I was able to look after her. 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It’d be back down to €200 per week. We have a social protection scheme that doesn’t work, that is totally out of line with the rest of Europe. And I think there was some acknowledgment of that by Government with regard to putting in place the PUP payment during the pandemic. But we’re back down to the system that doesn’t work. 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Masters’ and MBAs in particular are expensive, especially for full-time programmes, so footing the bill is a concern for those in the early stages of their careers and who may still have student loans outstanding. For example, the cost of tuition for an MBA at an Ivy League college in the US or some of Europe’s top flight business schools won’t leave much change out of €100,000. 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