About us

work-kin is the place for working parents to review their employers and share their experiences.

If you've been disappointed by restrictive holiday entitlement, zero maternity pay contributions or antiquated attitudes to flexible working, you need to call them out. Let other parents know what they could be in for, before it's too late.

If you've got a great employer who champions and supports working parents, they should be celebrated. Give them the praise they deserve and encourage other working parents to join the team.

This isn't a place where employers can pay purely to be recognised as a ‘great place to work’. These are honest reviews from real life parental experiences, so you can see how all their paperwork policies play out in the office.

Parents need more from their employers to make work work.

We need more than flexible start times. We need more than 21 days of holiday each year. We need more support to help with the costs of early years childcare.

Without this support from employers, many parents are effectively excluded from the workplace. That's thousands of highly-skilled, experienced employees, restricted from reaching their full potential.

We've had enough. Enough of sneaking out guiltily at 4:55pm to make the childcare pickup. Enough of missing sports days. Enough of the exhaustion that comes with trying to work like you don't have kids.

Parents are now actively choosing parent-friendly workplaces. Somewhere they can grow their career, alongside their family. A place that not only supports working parents, but encourages them.

In return, parent-friendly employers can take their pick from thousands of experienced professionals looking for long-term commitment. In return for a few years of understanding and support, companies could be rewarded with a lifetime employee. Parents are responsible, mature, hard-working, highly-motivated, grateful and great at multi-tasking. Can they really afford to exclude us?