Moving the dial on attitudes towards breastfeeding in the workplace

Ahead of World Breastfeeding Week 2021 (August 1-6), Peninsula conducted a global survey of 48,973 employers across 4 countries – Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the UK – to look at attitudes towards breastfeeding in the workplace and see how businesses were supporting their employees.

It is highly likely that, at some stage, managers will have an employee who is breastfeeding or expressing milk at work. This question has been in the news recently with several Olympic athletes complaining that they were having to choose between their sport and their child, until the International Olympic Committee revised their rules allowing babies to travel to Tokyo with their parents, if they were breastfeeding.

Within the remits of the legal protection, it is good practice to provide breastfeeding employees with suitable support. After all, the success of their return to the professional environment will often directly relate to how they are managed over the initial period.

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