Flexible Working Hours May be Stressful for Parents
Flexible working hours provided
for employees during school holidays can turn out to be more stressful for
parents, according to a new research done by Macquarie University's Business
School.
Prof Lucy Taksa,
Co-Director of the Centre for Workforce Futures found the combination of
workplace demands and attending to needs of children at home pluts extra
pressure on mothers. They write emails on their phones, or dragging lap toptops
out at skate parks and play centres. Sometimes, women also need to look after
parents and eldery while juggling with office work at home.
Companies should think of
devising holiday programs for children and Macquarie University provides a
Vacation Care recreational program for up to 60 primary-school children.
Financial services company IAG found that school holiday programs for children of
their employees helped in annual saving in care costs to staff upto $5000 for
each child.
Most often companies provide
flexible working hours as a favour but it results in more stress on employees
especially working mothers.
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