Whilst she was working in an investment banking role, she asked her employer if she could work from home once a week and in response, they fired her.
The experience led her to found Flexa in 2019, alongside Maurice O’Brien and Tim Leppard. Flexa is the platform where companies get discovered for their working environments and culture. The platform vets and verifies companies’ flexible working environments and benefits, to create transparency for jobseekers about what flexible working options are available. Flexa works with over 200 companies, including the likes of Mars UK, Microsoft, Centrica, TUI Group, Virgin Media O2, Not On The High Street, and Action Against Hunger UK. And over two million users in 100 different countries rely on the platform to find truly flexible opportunities.
Highlights
We’re building that for careers for companies so people say I want to be able to work from home one day a week, I want to be able to work flexible hours to drop my kids off and the ability to travel the world for two weeks a year while working would be wonderful.
It is a lot of data, in fact it’s over 100 million data points that we now hold.
We bring real insight and nuance into how company’s target their ideal talent
Companies should be building this proactive talent pipeline that means they’ve always got the pick of talent.
All of the information on Flexa is verified by employees which is why we are trusted by so many people.
We take a statistically significant sample size of their employees, ask them to say whether 'yes' it is dog friendly or 'yes' there is disability representation or 'yes' it is an inclusive culture.
It’s one of the best things that could have happened. I was really miserable trying to get into an office every day when I effectively couldn’t walk once a week.
The biggest challenge will be making sure that every company feels like they have to be seen on Flexa because it’s the first place that every individual starts their job search.