Business View Oceania | September 2020

17 BUSINESS VIEW OCEANIA SEPTEMBER 2020 “Do we want a planet that’s falling apart because we work too much? We can’t fully create gender balance until we give men the same opportunity to step out as we’ve given women to step up. There are a lot of issues that sit with us. If we accept that our young people want a different way of working – and it’s statistically proven that they will forego income for time – how are we going to create that workforce that they will participate in? They watched us work hard and burn out, and they were brought up not having us around as much as they would have wanted, and they watched us be conflicted by that and they’re saying for themselves, I don’t want that. If we accept that we always want the next generation to have more than we did, a better life, that better life may well just be not burning out. Having more time. “Andrew often says, you don’t get many opportunities to change the world, and there was a moment in time when we realised the effect of what we were doing and that this was an opportunity to change the world. We feel it was our social responsibility. And we couldn’t be happier to take it on.”