The millionaire founder of muesli company Carman has revealed that staff are allowed to “work on holiday” so they don’t have to take annual leave.
Carolyn Creswell, famous for buying a muesli-making company for $1,000 when she was an 18-year-old university student, said she encouraged staff to work fewer hours during holidays abroad.
“We also have a work-from-holiday policy, so sometimes when people go on vacation, we say, ‘If you want to work half a day after vacation,’ we allow them to work five days a year anywhere.” world,” he told ABC’s Q+A Monday night.
Creswell, 50, director of a business empire worth $170 million, told Patricia Karvelas that this allowed staff to travel abroad with their families without having to eat up their annual leave.
The millionaire founder of muesli company Carman has revealed that staff are allowed to “work on holiday” so they don’t have to take annual leave.
“For the school holidays you might say, ‘We’re going to Bali for 10 days, but I’m very happy to work nine to 12 and I’m happy to keep up the pace and I could do it three days a week.’ just to keep on top of my workload.”
“That’s five days a year that they haven’t had to deduct from their leave policy.”
Working from home became more common during the pandemic during the long lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne in 2021.
On census night in August 2021, 31 per cent of workers in New South Wales were working from home, compared to 26 per cent in Victoria, Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions is now pushing to make working from home a right where possible.
But ACTU secretary Sally McManus said the WFH also needed to ensure women continued to receive promotions, rather than just being offered flexibility so they could care for their children.
“When there’s an assumption – ‘Oh, the people who are going to want to work from home are the ones who are going to be responsible for childcare’ – it’s sort of ingrained that it’s the women who do that who are most likely to do that.” to do it, miss a lot of other things and not change those roles as well,” he said.
“Things can move society forward and make things better for everyone or they can set us back.”
Carolyn Creswell, famous for buying a muesli-making company when she was an 18-year-old university student, said she encouraged staff to work fewer hours during holidays abroad.
Creswell, director of a business empire worth $170 million, told Patricia Karvelas that this allowed staff to travel abroad with their families without having to eat up their annual leave.
Creswell said that despite the benefits of working from home, most staff wanted to go into the office from time to time.
“There is a human connection and we found that a lot of people want to go back to the office because they actually enjoy it more,” he said.
‘People often say, “Look, it’s convenient to work from home, but did I love that day working from home?” – whereas, we often find that those who come to the office say, “You know what? I actually had a great day at work today.”
Melbourne-based Carman’s Kitchen now exports to 35 countries and is worth an estimated $170 million.
The company began in 1992, when Creswell offered $1,000 for a muesli packaging company in the market that was about to downsize.
Back then, as an 18-year-old student at Monash University, she worked various jobs, including behind the cash register at Coles and as a waitress at the St Kilda Football Club, she said last year. How I Did It Podcast from Australian Financial Review.
Melbourne-based Carman’s Kitchen now exports to 35 countries and is worth an estimated $170 million (founder Carolyn Creswell is pictured with her son Will)
