According to the 2020 Modern Family Index, which is published annually by charity Working Families and childcare provider Bright Horizons, while over half of parents are working flexibly, ‘badly designed’ jobs have left many struggling to cope with the competing demands of home and the workplace.
Based on a survey of more than 3,000 parents, this year's research has been released to coincide with the Government’s plans to legislate to improve support for working families, following its commitments in December’s Queen’s Speech.
The 2020 Index shows that a substantial percentage of the working population aren’t benefitting from work-life balance improvements as they struggle to reconcile the pressure to ‘go the extra mile’ and with the ‘always on culture’.
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