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After School Stress
September 20, 2006
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
-E. E. Cummings
-E. E. Cummings
Brandeis researchers Ros Barnett and Karen Gareis have found that parents with greater concerns about their children’s after-school arrangements are more than three times as likely to report high levels of job disruptions. These disruptions include missed work, distractions on the job, and poor quality of work.
On average, the researchers reported in Work & Family Newsbrief (July 2005; www.workfamily.com), working parents with high levels of after-school stress miss about three days of work per year for that reason and were found to be more frequently interrupted, distracted, and drained of energy at work. They are more likely to make errors, turn down requests to work extra hours, and miss meetings and deadlines at work.
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Comments (2)
Displaying All 2 CommentsHeavenly Ski Resort
Stateline, NV, United States
3 days - big deal. If you do not have the correct support system at work for your employer to understand some of the shifts that need to happen - then parents find other jobs that allow them some flexibility and understanding. I do not see the stress of after school care as being anymore stressful than all the other things on parents' plates with regards to their employers and absenteeism.
Wheelock College
Lincoln, NA, United States
Sometimes the work/family reseasrchers miss the main point. Most of the companies that I have worked with do not include absenteeism as a potential benefit of child care, because they know
that good child care programs, including after-school, encourage their parents to be with their children when they are needed. Good programs for children do not encourage parents to go to work if they are needed at home. Good employers know this.
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