Based on responses from 2,761 parents with children aged 13 and under, the 2018 Modern Families Index finds that in order to achieve a work-life balance:
According to the annual survey, which is published by the work life charity Working Families and nursery group Bright Horizons, the stress of the modern workplace is pushing parents to ‘breaking point’, with many having to work more than their contracted hours due to increasing workloads or because they feel it is expected of them.
It finds that of those parents contracted to work 35-36 hours per week, 40 per cent are putting in extra hours, of whom almost a third are outing in an extra seven hours – the equivalent to an extra working day each week.
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