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Family friendly and flexible working

Life is about more than work. We believe it's important for everyone to balance their career with other priorities like family, friends, travel and hobbies. That's why we provide a flexible working environment and family friendly policies.

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Flexible working                              

Most of our roles are now hybrid, combining a mix of office, client site and home working. This flexible approach allows our people to combine their careers with hobbies and family life, creating a better work/life balance.

Family friendly policies                                                                           

We offer equal pay during family leave to all parents. This includes maternity, adoption and surrogacy, paternity and shared parental leave. Scroll down to discover more about these policies and other family friendly benefits that we offer.

Time Out

Deloitte’s Time Out scheme enables employees to take a four-week period of unpaid leave once a year, for any reason, at a time that suits them and the business. Our aim is to ensure that all our people are able to balance their lives outside work with a successful and fulfilling career.

Connect with others

Through our diversity networks you'll be able to connect with clients and the community. It’s where you can find support among your ‘affinity group’, whether gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or parenting or caring responsibilities. More than 7,000 members catch up regularly.

Wellbeing

We are committed to offering an environment which supports both the mental and physical wellbeing of our people. We have multiple forms of support in place for you to access as well as a variety of professionally trained networks dedicated to supporting each individual and their wellbeing within the workplace, and beyond.

Hybrid Working

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing.

Our hybrid ways of working enable you to:

  • Spend time at our clients’ offices to understand their needs, collaborate on project work and build relationships.
  • Use the office to collaborate with colleagues, strengthen your relationships, undertake face-to-face training, or mark moments that matter.
  • Undertake more individual, focused work, virtual/hybrid collaboration and online learning from home, or another suitable base.

If you apply for a role, please speak to your recruiter or hiring manager to discuss hybrid working and how it could work for you.

Our Ways of Working Framework

Our Ways of Working Framework is a tool to support open and honest conversations about ways of working preferences. It’s a way for our teams to discuss hybrid ways of working and to collectively agree an approach that works for everyone.

Our Family friendly Policies

All families are different, and we support all definitions of family. Our family friendly policies support our people to move through these important moments in their lives.

Our Family Leave policy offers 26 weeks’ full pay to all parents from day one of employment.

The policy combines all family leave types that are taken immediately following the birth or adoption of a child (maternity, adoption and surrogacy, paternity and shared parental leave).

*for employees whose expected date of childbirth/adoption placement falls on or after 29 December 2024, subject to the terms of the policy
 

Up to 12 weeks of additional paid leave for parents whose child receives neonatal care, from day one of employment. This is on top of family leave.

*for employees whose expected date of childbirth/adoption placement falls on or after 29 December 2024, subject to the terms of the policy
 

One week of paid leave per year from day one of employment for carers for a dependant with a long-term care need*.

*subject to the terms of the policy
 

Paid time off for fertility appointments where an employee or their partner is having fertility treatment, from day one of employment*.

*subject to the terms of the policy
 

We offer paid leave for all parents to attend, or accompany their partner, to antenatal, adoption and surrogacy appointments.
*from 1 January 2025 (for employees whose expected date of childbirth/adoption placement falls on or after 29 December 2024, subject to the terms of the policy)
 

Our Working Parents Transitions Programme helps our parents and their team leaders to manage the transition into parenthood as smoothly as possible, whether they are a first-time parent or adding to their family. We also support carers at Deloitte, ensuring that people can work flexibly when needed

If a parent’s primary childcare arrangements have fallen through unexpectedly we provide emergency back-up childcare, for example: a day at nursery, a childminder, holiday club or nanny/home carer. We offer 5 fully-subsidised and 5 part-subsidised sessions per year.

Deloitte’s Working Families network connects parents, prospective parents and carers across the firm so they can share best practices, resources, ideas, information, and sometimes just simply swap stories.

Proud at Deloitte Families is a support network for the whole spectrum of LGBTQ+ families at Deloitte including:

  • Employees with LGBT+ family members (children, siblings, parents)
  • LGBTQ+ parents
  • LGBTQ+ colleagues considering growing their family

Our 24/7 external Advice Line provides free confidential and independent support and advice for all our people, partners and their immediate families.

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