Charities risk losing staff if they fail to promote wellbeing – The Guardian
Staff working for charities may be more susceptible to overwork and ill effects from poor work-life balance. Those working for charities often feel they need to work harder because failure to do so...
View ArticleStudy: work-life challenges across generations – EY
A global survey, covering nearly 10,000 employees in eight countries has found that: Work-life balance is harder worldwide. People are quitting their jobs because of excessive overtime hours and bosses...
View ArticleStop Punishing the Family Man – HBR Blog
Men in the United States continue to face discrimination in the workplace for failing to maintain the appearance of the ‘ideal worker’, who is fully committed to work at the exclusion of family life....
View ArticleWork email is making us a ‘generation of idiots’. Time to switch off – The...
The downsides of email now outweigh the benefits as they promote unmanageable workloads and supplant face-to-face discussions. Moreover, these negative impacts extend beyond the workplace and into...
View ArticleStaff think flexible working can make them seem lazy – Business Insider
A survey of 500 hiring managers and more than 1,500 professionals across Australia and New Zealand has shown what employers and employees fear most about flexible working. For staff, the biggest...
View ArticleWhy Some Men Pretend to Work 80-Hour Weeks – Harvard Business Review
Research at a global strategy consulting firm with a strong US presence found that many men are dissatisfied with the expectation that they perform the role of the ‘ideal worker’ who is fully devoted...
View ArticleIf We Want to Help Working Mothers, We Could Start With Paid Paternity Leave...
Studies show that statutory maternity leaves and affordable childcare often have unintended consequences for women – such as reduced earnings, or discriminatory hiring practices by employers. These...
View ArticleThe Problem with Part-Time Work Is That It’s Rarely Part-Time – Harvard...
Many mothers looking to return work assume part-time schedules would be an ideal solution. However, research shows that many of those working mothers on official part-time schedules work well outside...
View ArticleThe 24/7 Work Culture’s Toll on Families and Gender Equality – New York Times
It has often been assumed that a lack of family-friendly policies has kept many women from promotion to the highest ranks of the business world, and companies are starting to address this concern. It...
View ArticleFlexible Jobs Index – Timewise
Employers are failing to overtly offer prospective employees flexible working options, and this is causing a ‘talent bottleneck’. While 46% of people in employment in the UK want some kind of flexible...
View ArticleDads struggle to find work-life balance – Business Matters
Interviews with fathers who have children under school age have shown that almost two thirds feel that their work pattern does not suit their needs. A quarter say they are unhappy with their work-life...
View ArticleLiving and working in Europe 2014 – Eurofound
The Eurofound 2014 Yearbook on Living and Working in Europe covers recent employment trends, highlights job creation and job loss has occurred, and suggests where investment in future growth is best...
View ArticleMaking choices between policies and real lives
Barbara Hobson draws on the research of a team within a large European Network of Excellence, Reconciling work and welfare (RECWOWE), many of whom are authors in the recent book, Worklife Balance: The...
View ArticleMen wanting more time for parenting must demand flexible workplaces – The Age
In Australia, it remains taken for granted that women will take primary responsibility for childcare. It is women who are overwhelmingly the stay-at-home child carers, and women who work part-time to...
View ArticleFlexible working key to solving sickness absence – Workplace Savings and...
One in five UK workers have called in sick due to unmanageable stress – and 93% of these workers gave a different reason for their absence. Excessive workloads, long hours and poor work-life balance...
View ArticlePresenteeism over productivity: why flexible working needs a rebrand – The...
Despite the popularity, and range, of discussion about flexible working it remains viewed as something pursued only by those without ambition. That is, flexible working is viewed, simply, as working...
View ArticleThe Feminist Case For Paternity Leave – Huffington Post
To promote women at work, companies should be looking to provide men with more benefits, including committing to offering paternity leave. Making leave for new parents gender-neutral, allowing both new...
View ArticlePregnancy and maternity discrimination forces thousands of new mothers out of...
Research from the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission suggests that 54,000 new mothers may be forced out of their jobs in Britain each year. Around 20% of the 3,200 new mothers surveyed also...
View ArticleHow To Fix Work-Life Balance for Constantly Connected Millennials – TIME
Younger generations of workers – so called ‘Millennials’ – are used to constantly using new communications technology to constant keep up-to-date with social media and personal email. This has also...
View ArticleHelping men get work-life balance can help everyone
Laura Good, Deborah Towns and Jesse E. Olsen, from the Centre for Workplace Leadership at the University of Melbourne, discuss work-life balance, workplace gender inequality, and an innovative...
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