FUTURE OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE – PARENTS’ PERSPECTIVE

• Authors: Michoń Piotr
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

Taking the parents’ perspective, the paper addresses the issue of work-life balance. Based on the observed trends, the paper makes an attempt to predict which changes may have the greatest impact on the opportunities of striking balance in the future: (1) shortening the time spent on performing professional work, (2) wide spreading of task-based contracts, which will increase fl exibility as to place and time of task performance; (3) expansion of precarious employment; (4) increasing fathers’ involvement in childcare. While separately described changes are interdependent their consequences can be positive (facilitate work-life balance) or negative. Moreover, the described changes will not apply equally to all employees in the future.

Keywords

EN

work-life balance; fl exible work; family; childcare, precarious employment; fatherhood; fl exible employment

• Publisher: Institute of Labor and Social Studies, Warsaw
• Journal: Polityka Społeczna
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1(16) ENG FUTURE OF WORK
• Pages: 31-36

Contributors

author

Michoń Piotr

• Poznań University of Economics and Business

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0014.5798