WORKING TO A DIFFERENT BEAT

“Workin’ 9 to 5 is enough to drive you crazy” – that’s how US singer Dolly Parton summed up the workplace way back in the early 1980s. Now, almost 40 years later, three young Kiwi mums are making an all-out assault on inflexible workplaces around the country, which are still driving many ‘9 to 5’ workers crazy.

Flexible workplace advisory Freerange Works is the brainchild of Sarah Brooke, Aimee Mitchell and Kerryn Strong – three women who all realised that lots of Kiwi workplaces were thinking about flexible working but needed support to implement it successfully. They also recognised that recruitment needed a fresh approach to specifically manage the talented people looking for flexibility and connect them with flexible workplaces.

Sarah had known Kerryn for years and met Aimee at the kindy their daughters attended. Their past careers were a perfect blend of skills and knowledge required to launch a flexible workplace consultancy. Sarah had been involved