As a dad and business owner, my advice to fathers who would like to spend more time with their children, would be to simply ask if they can work more flexibly.
"Its drivers can work very flexibly, they can stay at home all day if they work for Uber - they'll be unemployed," said Mr McNamara.
In terms of the longer term trends, he said he would like the review to think about a future world of work where many more people work flexibly and how "we can have a tax and welfare system that is properly resourced" to reflect that.
Ingenious, entrepreneurial Americans surely can think of even more ways to work flexibly.
"We fully appreciate the need for our members to work flexibly and collaboratively because we can protect services by making the workforce more efficient," he said.
These might include a burden of additional costs on the business, a reduction in the quality of service a company can provide, or even upcoming structural changes which would not accommodate your request to work flexibly.
We work flexibly and at different times.
But there is no automatic right to work flexibly, and challenging a decision that doesn't go your way is likely to be difficult if your employer can show that the request and refusal has been properly considered.
This allows riders to work flexibly around another commitment, like studying or other work.
This could mean more opportunity to work flexibly without career penalties for having children.
