Family and Work series
This major series of reports, based on research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, explores the impact of work on families and examines the way in which employers respond in policy and practice.
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Around the clock
Childcare services at atypical timesThis timely report considers how childcare services are meeting the needs of parents working atypical hours.
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The nature and pattern of family-friendly employment policies in Britain
This report provides a detailed understanding of employers' motivations for offering flexible working and the outcomes of different policies and practices for both employers and employees.
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Line managers and family-friendly employment
Roles and perspectivesBased on interviews with over 100 managers in over 30 workplaces, this report examines the role of line managers in implementing family-friendly employment policies. It considers the day-to-day issues that arise, as employees and managers negotiate appropriate responses and explores the relationship between managers' personal attributes, attitudes and experiences and the organisational and policy context in which they operate.
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Attitudes to flexible working and family life
This report is the first to examine attitudes towards flexible working and family life. Drawing on a study of over 1500 members of the Amalgamated Electrical and Engineering Union (AEEU) and interviews with 53 AEEU shop stewards, the report addresses key questions around rights and benefits, employer's attitudes, gender differences and the effects of flexible working on employees' health and well-being. It also considers what types of workplace culture facilitate flexible working practices.
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Caring and counting
The impact of mothers' employment on family relationshipsThe main work-life balance policies promoted by government focus on the amount of time mothers spend at work. This report challenges this approach. It suggests that what happens inside the workplace and how this interacts with family life is just as important.
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Combining self-employment and family life
Despite the increasing policy interest in work-life balance issues, relatively little research has been carried out into the links between self-employment and family life. This report considers, for the first time, the extent to which new family-friendly initiatives and legislation provide adequate support for self-employed parents.
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Riding the roller coaster
Family life and self-employmentThis report takes a critical look at the costs and benefits for individuals and families of turning to self-employment as a route out of economic disadvantage.
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Geographical mobility
Family impactsThis report charts the changing role and nature of geographical mobility in organisational strategies and career development. It explores the work and family life experiences of employees and partners who have faced job-related geographical mobility.
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Organisations, careers and caring
With the increase in mothers' employment both the government and many employers are promoting flexible working policies to improve work-life 'balance'. This report considers the effects of these changes on the lives of both women and men. It examines three employment sectors in detail - banking, grocery retail and local authorities.
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Employed carers and family-friendly employment policies
This report outlines how employees and managers in three sectors - banking, grocery retail and local authorities - have experienced the 'family-friendly employment' options available in their place of work.
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The effects of parents' employment on children's lives
John F. Ermisch, Marco Francesconi
This report examines the links between parents' employment patterns while their children were growing up and what happens in those children's lives when they become young adults. This study focuses on a number of outcomes, notably: educational attainment; employment and economic inactivity; mental health; and for women, childbearing at an early age. Some of its findings carry important implications for public policy and for further research. A number are likely to prove controversial, arousing public debate concerning their meaning and contemporary relevance.
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Family-friendly working?
Putting policy into practiceSue Bond, Jeff Hyman, Juliette Summers, Sarah Wise
In responding to the needs of working parents and their employers, the Government has introduced legislation which encourages family-friendly initiatives to be determined jointly and voluntarily between employers and employees. Focusing on the key sector of financial services, Family-friendly working? reviews how companies are handling this process.
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