Judging Panel 2012
The Special Awards for Top Employers for Working Families will be judged anonymously, ensuring credibility and integrity to the judging process.
Our judging panel are leaders in their fields and are expertly placed to judge how 'family friendly' the entrants are.
Mary Mercer
Mary Mercer is a Principal Consultant for the Institute for Employment Studies where she leads employer work and research on flexible working and is co-author of the institute’s report The HR Agenda for 2010: Ten top trends as we come out of recession.
Starting her career with Capita, where she led the HR consulting team, Mary has been advising organisations on implementing successful flexible working since the first Right to Request legislation was introduced and has seen that flexible working can be really successful where organisations truly believe in the business benefits as well as the advantages for staff. To demonstrate this, she suggests, organisations have to ensure their flexible workers are treated equally by business processes, particularly the performance management system where they can often receive poorer outcomes and consequently miss out on any performance pay or promotion opportunities.
Mary is married and has been getting to grips with life as a flexible worker since she had her daughter four years ago and began working three days a week.
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