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#13 Molly Johnson-Jones: Fired for Asking to WFH — What She Did Next Redefined Job Searching

#13 Molly Johnson-Jones: Fired for Asking to WFH — What She Did Next Redefined Job Searching

Update: 2025-06-22
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Molly Johnson-Jones is the co-founder and CEO of Flexa, a platform that showcases companies offering flexible working environments. Her personal experience of being dismissed from a finance role after requesting flexible work (working from home one day a week) accommodations for her autoimmune condition led her to establish Flexa in 2019. The platform now serves millions of users globally and collaborates with major corporations like Mars UK and Microsoft UK to promote transparency in workplace flexibility.

In this episode we cover: 

  • Graduating from Oxford - but at what cost? 

  • How her autoimmune condition got her fired 

  • How overachieving can internalize sexism 

  • Being in a relationship and running a business together 

  • Work-life blend 

  • Having a non-visible disability 

  • Making FLEXA the first port of call for job searching 

  • Why freedom is success 

  • Taking life in phases & normalising career breaks 


Links: 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-johnson-jones/

https://flexa.careers/

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#13 Molly Johnson-Jones: Fired for Asking to WFH — What She Did Next Redefined Job Searching

#13 Molly Johnson-Jones: Fired for Asking to WFH — What She Did Next Redefined Job Searching

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