Why eliminating start and finish times is the next workplace revolution

When one of her employees called to say she would be late for work because her clothes were wet from sleeping in a park, Donna Stolzenberg knew something had to change.

The CEO of National Homeless Collective and founder of Melbourne op shop The Kala Space decided then and there that if she were to truly help homeless women get back on their feet, she would have to implement some big adjustments in the workplace.

So she ended up doing something radical: she erased all start and stop times for the women working in the Kala Space.

“When this woman explained to me she would have to go to a laundromat first to dry and clean her clothes before she could come into work, it made me think: what are the main barriers facing women in precarious…