O2 & Vodafone amongst corporate giants championing returnships

A lot can happen in a decade. Flip phones, once the must-have gadget, aren’t cool anymore and everyone’s glued to these smartphones things – at home, on the train and in the workplace. Oh, and if you need anything, you can order a taxi, or lunch just by clicking on app. So, what do you mean you don’t know how to use Twitter?

It can be a lot to take in – especially when you’ve had a break from the workplace. With digital transformation and the recession both taking place when Adriana Ennab left the banking industry, on her first day back to work after a 16-year-break at 52, she wanted to leave.

However, three years later and Ennab, now Director of Public Policy at Credit Suisse, is glad she stuck her returnship out -  and she’s just one of the growing number of women returning to work following an extended career break.

“People said to me: ‘You are crazy. Banking has changed so much. You don’t know enough.’ But I love being in this world again,’ she says.