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Work, life and workplace flexibility The Australian Work and Life Index 2009. Committee for Economic Development of Australia Hyatt Hotel, Adelaide 30 th July 2009. AWALI 2009: How work fits with rest of life in an economic downturn. Who did we ask?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Work, life and workplace flexibility
The Australian Work and Life Index 2009
Committee for Economic Development of AustraliaHyatt Hotel, Adelaide30th July 2009
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AWALI 2009: How work fits with rest of life in an economic downturn
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Who did we ask?
We surveyed 2700 working Australians in March/April (1435 in 2007, 2800 in 2007)Newspoll ran the surveyRandomised survey which is pretty representativeThis year we focussed especially on
workplace flexibilityinternational comparisonseducation and training
What did we find?
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How do we measure work-life outcomes?
How often does work interfere:
with activities outside work?with enough time with family or friends?With community connections
How frequently do we feel rushed and press for time?
How satisfied are we with our work-life balance?
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Downturn, what downturn?
Hours downBut not work-life pressures
Overall two-thirds broadly satisfied with work-life balanceBut more are unsatisfied than in earlier yearsAnd some more unsatisfied
Men have worse outcomes than womenBut when doing the same hours, women are worse
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Work-life interference?
Many people are affected by work • A quarter feel work often or almost always interferes with enough time
with family or friends (43% never/rarely)• Just under a quarter feel that work often or almost always interferes with
activities outside work (43% never/rarely)• 17% say work interferes often or almost always with community
connections (60% never rarely)• Over half often or almost always feel rushed and pressed for time• But most – 68% - are reasonably satisfied with their work-life balance
Not a ‘work and family’ issue
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A gendered story
Women are reporting work-life interference that is closer to men’s• Their work life satisfaction now on a par with men’s
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Not quite the equality we were aiming for
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But not equal in time pressure
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Full-time women going backwards…
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Part-time work not a lot better… for women
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Hours critical
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Rich and poor do worse
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Rural and regional mothers
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Flexibility
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International comparison: how well does work fit with family and social commitments (well, very well)
57.963.4
67.070.673.073.173.773.874.274.975.475.876.076.878.379.279.479.580.680.982.483.183.483.984.684.885.586.087.887.888.088.1
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
GreeceTurkeyLatvia
PolandItaly
HungaryBulgaria
RomaniaSlovenia
CroatiaSpain
EstoniaLithuania
CyprusSlovakia
MaltaSweden
Czech RepublicIrelandFrance
PortugalBelgium
LuxembourgAustralia
NetherlandsUnited Kingdom
GermanyFinland
DenmarkSwitzerland
AustriaNorway
%
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How will we come out of recession?
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Implications for policy?
Long hours and overload• Health costs?
Organisation and management of work • Job design, overload• Flexibility
‘Right to request’• Right people are getting it first• Plenty of scope to increase
Country women and mothers• Need to know more
Domestic work• Reallocation: in our dreams?
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Back to Jack Welch
“There is no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences. ..You’ll be passed over if you are not in the clutch.”