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For most, across different generations, gender, and seniority, work performance has improved as well as employees’ well-being, work-life balance, relationships, and even personal confidence. [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic may have been the exogenous shock that Japan needed to make people and organizations realize the downsides of an inflexible work culture. [Hiroshi Ono – East Asia [...]

The findings on greater increases in fathers’ than mothers’ incomes at the time of entering parenthood, as followed by postponement, may help explain why progress in achieving gender equality in [...]

It’s expensive and time-consuming. But the data prove that kids benefit. [Nate G. Hilger – The Atlantic, 20 October 2022.] READ MORE

While work-life balance is something that everyone strives for, it’s not always easy to achieve. [Christopher Massimine – Entrepreneur, 12 October 2022.] READ MORE

The pandemic presents an opportunity for governments to reform existing legislation relating to flexible working and the right to disconnect. [Xi Wen Chan, Sudong Shang, Paula Brough, Adrian [...]

In the end, all we have in this life is our time and how we choose to spend it. [Katy MacKinnon Hansell – Forbes, 23 September 2022.] READ MORE

This massive segment of the workforce remains severely underserved by employers today. READ MORE

Despite the disruptions to family routines caused by the pandemic, academic institutions have expected academic mothers and fathers to continue undertaking their professional responsibilities at [...]

Although much attention has been paid to the idea of work-life balance, many of us were never taught or formally trained as to what that constitutes, how to achieve it, or how to maintain [...]