Be like BT | It's time to get serious about helping working carers - that starts with paid leave

Picture a break room at lunchtime.

Five tables are full of employees catching up on what happened last night on Love Island or the barbecue they’re planning this weekend. A few other colleagues are standing by the coffee machine, waiting for it to churn out some of the lukewarm good stuff, and maybe there are a couple of stragglers still reheating last night’s leftovers in the microwave.

In that room of, let’s say, 35 people, how many would you expect to be working carers? Not zero, granted, but perhaps two? Three at a push?

Understanding the scale of the working carer issue

If you answered five, have a gold star.