{"id":434681,"date":"2026-05-06T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434681\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:44:09","slug":"this-working-life-with-john-ryan-we-must-be-the-most-flexible-company-left-in-financial-services-regarding-working-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/434681\/","title":{"rendered":"This Working Life with John Ryan: \u2018We must be the most flexible company left in financial services regarding working from home\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe chief underwriting officer with Allianz Ireland chats to Mary McCarthy about insurance pricing, the reality of commuting, and how essential it is to have work-life balance\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Ryan, chief underwriting officer at Allianz\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IB John Ryan.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">John Ryan, chief underwriting officer at Allianz<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Mary McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I had a really nice upbringing in Artane in Dublin. I\u2019ve one brother and two sisters, and we are a very tight-knit family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">My parents devoted everything they could to us. They put all their focus into giving us the best opportunities they could and we were encouraged into any sport we liked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chief underwriting officer with Allianz Ireland chats to Mary McCarthy about insurance pricing, the reality of commuting,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,615,61,5167,60,90452,5762,19393],"class_list":["post-434681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-insurance","tag-ireland","tag-mary-mccarthy","tag-ucd","tag-working-from-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}