Report: Modern Families Index 2018
Key findings:
- The Index identified that only 35 per cent of parents manage to finish work on time every day; the majority stay late, take work home or work in the evenings or at weekends at least some of the time.
- When parents were asked how they felt about their employer in terms of work-life balance, over a third said they felt resentful, with more fathers than mothers agreeing (37 per cent vs. 32 per cent).
- Flexibility alone is not enough in itself without support. For those parents who do work flexibly, it is the best way of gaining control over their work life; but over a third of parents reported that it didn’t improve their work-life balance.
This report was compiled by work-life balance charity Working Families and Bright Horizons.
