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How much should we work? Working hours, holidays and working life: the participation challenge

How much should we work? Working hours, holidays and working life: the participation challenge. Committee for Economic Development of Australia Hilton Hotel, Adelaide 3rd August 2010. AWALI 2010: A work-life perspective on employment participation and working time. Who did we talk to?.

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How much should we work? Working hours, holidays and working life: the participation challenge

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  1. How much should we work?Working hours, holidays and working life: the participation challenge Committee for Economic Development of Australia Hilton Hotel, Adelaide 3rd August 2010

  2. AWALI 2010: A work-life perspective on employment participation and working time

  3. Who did we talk to? • We surveyed 2800 working Australians in March 2010 • Newspoll ran the survey • Randomised survey which is reasonably representative • This year we focussed especially on: • Working hours • Work hours preferences – who wants to work less or more? • Uptake of paid holiday leave

  4. 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?

  5. Four years of AWALI

  6. If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading (Lao Tzu) • Work negatively impacts on personal, family and community life for the majority of workers • For ¼ of workers this is often or ‘almost always’ the case • The same groups of workers continue to have the worse work-life outcomes

  7. Women are still more at risk of work-life strains

  8. Combining work & care continues to be challenging

  9. Managers & professionals continue to have poor work-life outcomes

  10. Those in service industries also have worse work-life outcomes

  11. Time is of the essence ...

  12. Little appetite for longer hours for most • Around half of all workers do not have a good fit between actual & preferred hours • Many workers want to work less (by 4+ hours) • 32% of women • 40% of men • Full-time 35-47 hours: • 46% of women & 34% of men • 48+ hours • 72% of men & 77% of women

  13. Who wants to work more (4+ hrs)? • Men working part-time (46.4%) • Prefer additional 6.8 hours, on average • 30.5 % of women working part-time agree • Prefer average of 2.8 hours more • Casual workers • 50.3% of men • 40.6% of women

  14. Generation gap? • Teen workers: 18 – 19 years • Gen Y: 20 – 29 years • Gen X: 30 -44 years • Baby Boomers: 45 – 64 years • Grey workers – 65+

  15. Ideal work week – 35 hours

  16. Gen X: family + work

  17. Holidays

  18. Mothers particularly benefit from holidays

  19. Why don’t people take holidays?

  20. Holidays versus pay rise?

  21. Leave work at home

  22. What to do?

  23. What to do? More say over working flexibly Long work hours Reducing the burden on working women More support for working fathers More supportive workplace culture practice, management and leadership Holidays matter: time, money, rest Future research….what works? Metrics?

  24. Managers and leaders • Understand and implement the law • Change workplace cultures and habits • ‘Walk the talk’ • Drive from top - with metrics, not policy • KPIs for managers • Measure, reward, reflect, respond • Prevent long hours • Support and educate supervisors, managers, staff

  25. AWALI tells us that better outcomes will flow from: Good supervision Supportive workplace cultures Avoidance of long hours Providing employee-centred flexibility Quality jobs (control, security) Reasonable workloads Taking leave

  26. Still a BBQ stopper?

  27. http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/cwl/default.asp

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