"Integrating Work and Family Life: A Holistic Approach"
Lotte Bailyn, Robert Drago and Thomas A. Kochan
MIT Workplace Center, Sloan School of Management, September 2001
Available Online
This comprehensive report focuses on the shifts in the American workforce
over the past 20 years and how these shifts have put new and growing pressures
on families, employees and employers. The study makes recommendations for
how employers, unions and professional associations, and government can
implement changes and adapt to the increased familial demands on workers
and the lack of resources available to help them balance between work and
family obligations.
- Employers should focus on work design, share control and responsibility
with employees, move more women into high-level corporate positions, and
engage others in a systematic approach.
- Unions and professional associations need to organize for work and family,
move more women into leadership positions, and build lasting coalitions
with other actors.
- Governments should ensure paid time for care and quality care work;
work hours, quality part-time jobs and portable benefits; and national/local
work and family councils.
- Communities and families should also be involved by building coalitions
across the actors and organizing cooperative family programs.
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