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<\/p>\nLast week, our Head of Franchise, Jo, paid us a visit at head office with her beautiful new arrival, Neeve. Following a flamboyant arrival and 5 minutes of all the ladies (and Charles, our director) cooing over Neeve, Jo was straight back into business mode.<\/p>\n
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This led us to write a blog post about working parents and we wanted to pick Jo\u2019s brain\u2026<\/p>\n
Q: How have you established a work-life balance?<\/strong><\/p>\n Jo: <\/strong>I love travel; therefore I am very lucky to work in this industry. This makes it quite easy for me to balance work and home life. Although I only work 3 days in the office, I am constantly checking my emails and thinking of the next steps and progression for the business. However, I am aware of when my family need me and when to take a break, especially with two children under 3.<\/p>\n Q: Do you use child care to help?<\/strong><\/p>\n Jo: <\/strong>Yes, my eldest goes to nursery 3 days a week and my parents kindly have him 2 days a week. At the moment, I am on maternity leave so it\u2019s a bit different. However, when I am back to it, this is a brilliant help and allows me to put all my energy into work, even when working from home.<\/p>\n Q: What motivates you to get back into work?<\/strong><\/p>\n Jo:<\/strong> I have always been very career driven and we are in an exciting time with the business \u2013 it is not something that I can or want to shut off from. I am constantly thinking of new things we can do and how to get better. I have a strong work ethic and working in travel is brilliant motivation.<\/p>\n Q: How do you switch off when spending time with your children?<\/strong><\/p>\n Jo:<\/strong> I ensure I have prepared for any days off such as completing current tasks and if I haven\u2019t had a chance to action something, keeping people updated on the progress. I also set an out of office so people are aware I\u2019m unavailable.<\/p>\n During normal weeks, having designated family time really helps \u2013 we attempt to eat at the same time together and have a routine bedtime. At these times, I am comfortable to turn off the laptop and put it away.<\/p>\n Q: How do you like to spend your downtime?<\/strong><\/p>\n Jo:<\/strong> I have always had a passion for travel \u2013 that will never go away, I have now just had to adapt it to suit my little ones. So I love spending downtime on holiday, enjoying new experiences together.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week, our Head of Franchise, Jo, paid us a visit at head office with her beautiful new arrival, Neeve. Following a flamboyant arrival and 5 minutes of all the ladies (and Charles, our director) cooing over Neeve, Jo was straight back into business mode. This led us to write a blog post about working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,9],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyholidaysfranchise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyholidaysfranchise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyholidaysfranchise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyholidaysfranchise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyholidaysfranchise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/familyholidaysfranchise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/familyholidaysfranchise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyholidaysfranchise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyholidaysfranchise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyholidaysfranchise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyholidaysfranchise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}