Work-life balance

Employee well-being and focus is seeing some small improvements following December’s all time lows.

Working parents need more child care solutions in 2021. One benefit company is making on-demand virtual child care an accessible option.

Caregiving is our collective duty — it’s no longer just on each individual, but on everyone, including our institutions, to do their best.

A possible cause for the extra hours? Almost 1 in 2 employees are worried staying remote could negatively affect their career, according to a new report from Owl Labs.

While in the past the ranks of digital nomads were dominated by entrepreneurial independent workers, the majority of this year’s nomads are in traditional jobs, due to the mass shift to remote work during COVID-19.

School closures will continue to impact the labor force participation rate for women, who generally take on a greater share of childcare obligations.

Even among those employers that workers say handle work-life balance best, adapting to the work-from-home world has been a struggle.

Employers should take these accommodations into account when helping staff set up a remote work environment.

When the world went remote, the shift put light on the challenges that remote workers have always faced, including being excluded from meetings and not receiving information about policy changes.