Work/life Articles
March 6 2008 - How work stress can lead to coronary heart disease.
January 25 2007 - Public
sector employers may 'talk the talk' on work-life balance, but in practice have limited commitment to changing
standard working patterns.
November 24 2006 - A new survey by CIPD/KPMG finds that many employers believe that the implementation
of new legal rights for working mothers and fathers will cause them difficulty.
October 3 2006 - A new report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
argues that the phenomenon of teleworking has been over-exaggerated, is unlikely ever to be a prospect for the majority of workers, and may be overshadowing far more effective means of improving work-life balance. Teleworking: trends and prospects suggests that many studies artificially swell the numbers of teleworkers by including "white van men" - tradespeople and others in self-employment who happen to use a computer and telephone as part of their work.
September 6 2006 - September 2006 sees the deployment of more British troops to Afghanistan, but what is the impact on the wives and families left behind? Research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council "The Family and Military as 'Greedy Institutions': Negotiating a work-life balance in the British Forces" reveals that the wives of British soldiers on active duty are more resilient then their husbands might imagine. Army wives have their dissatisfactions, but the work-life tensions of military life are outweighed by the financial security it provides.
February 7 2006 - Stress levels among senior managers are declining, their work-life balance
is improving and more people are working long hours because they enjoy their jobs, according to Roffey Park's
Management Agenda 2006 survey.
January 5 2006 - More accurately, 4,759,000 employees worked an average of 7 hours 24 minutes a week in unpaid overtime in 2005, according to a TUC analysis of the official Labour Force Survey figures.
September 9 2003 - The TUC has launched a new campaign against long hours. Their It's about time campaign wants people who work very long hours to call a new TUC telephone hot line or use a website to report abuses of legislation on long hours
September 9 2003 - But one third of employers are failing to get the message, according to the Work Foundation.
July 1 2003 - A study released earlier this year shows that stress is still regarded as a taboo subject in today's workplace. Despite the huge costs and high risks associated with work-related stress, many working environments are still chiefly characterised by high pressure and heavy workloads. Moreover, susceptibility to stress is very much considered to be a weakness that employees cannot afford to highlight without fear of repercussions.
February 5 2002 - A conference on trends in working hours and flexible working patterns in the UK and across Europe will hear from employers who, working with unions, have encouraged flexible working and work-life balance. Examples featured will include Lloyds TSB and Arla Foods.
January 3 2002 -
Do stress measurement questionnaires really measure stress in a reliable and valid way?
Do they actually provide the information that organisations need to tackle workplace stress?
September 28 2001 - Employment Relations Minister Alan Johnson announced changes to the Working Time Regulations which will remove the qualifying period necessary for entitlement to paid annual leave. Workers will be entitled to paid annual leave from their first day of employment, with a corresponding right to compensation for any untaken leave on termination of employment. The amended regulations come into force from October 25 2001.
August 30 2001 - It seems that managers find juggling successful careers with caring responsibilities more difficult than other professionals such as doctors. A new ESRC-funded cross-national study compares bankers and doctors in Britain, France and Norway and highlights a need for further policies to help both male and female employees attain a satisfactory work-life balance.
May 1 2001 - Amicus, the UK's largest private sector union has claimed victory in the battle over reduced working hours. The European Union upheld the union's complaint over the British Government's 'unlawful and inadequate implementation of the working time directive' and issued Infringement Proceedings against the British Government giving them two months to comply.
March 21 2001 - Enterprising businesses are being urged to bid for an additional £5
million support from a £10.5 million government fund to help develop practical but profitable ways for employees to
achieve a better work-life balance.
March 5 2001 - The partners of a third of people who work longer than 48 hours in a typical week reported that the long hours culture had a negative effect on their relationships. More than half of the partners interviewed by Taylor Nelson Sofres for the CIPD said that their sex life suffered as a result of the `long hours' worker's tiredness. 43% agreed that they were fed up with having to take responsibility for most of the domestic burden.
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