It is called “work-life balance” and refers, prosaically, to the daily effort that each worker experiences to provide for the needs of their family, their work, children's commitments (when they exist) and, if possible, of his own mental health.
Daily stress, born from a deadly mix of anxieties which also have repercussions on physical fatigue, which leads 46% of parents to consider resigning every day. The English, also in this case, have the term ready for use: “Great resignation“, that is to say this great resignation, which has taken hold especially during the pandemic, among workers who are beginning to no longer support the irreconcilable rhythms of personal life and employment.
The phenomenon is also well photographed by Censis according to which for 62.7% of Italians, work is not the main concern in life and furthermore, for 80% of workers, it is not worth sacrificing the personal interests that work has entailed in the past, to the detriment of their well-being.
Recent research published in Human ressources it also highlighted that up to 46% of parents have left their job in the past year or are seriously considering quitting. In particular, 40% of those surveyed are considering leaving their job because they have difficulty reconciling work and family obligations, with a greater propensity among younger people, between 25 and 34 years old (45%) and mothers ( 46%). .
The data is also confirmed in our country, where, according to what the Labor Inspectorate reports, 61,391 resignations of fathers and mothers were validated in 2022 (+17.1% compared to the previous year). Most of them resigned in the first three years following the birth of their children and mainly by young people aged 29 to 44 (79.4%) and women (72.8%)attributing the cause to an increasingly accentuated difficulty in reconciling professional and private life (63%).
Those who leave their jobs are mainly workers who are expecting their first child or who only have one.
Today, in a country characterized by a sudden drop in the birth rate, it is a question of responding to the challenges linked to parenting in the workplace, promoting more inclusive and family-friendly policies and corporate cultures.
One of the many possible solutions, proposed by companies dealing with business services, could firstly be that of open a parenting support office on its premises where to provide assistance with the bureaucratic procedures to be followed, for example to apply for a bonus, submit documents, compulsory/optional leave.
“In particular, 9 out of 10 women would have liked to receive more information, both from institutions, which often offer difficult or non-exhaustive information via the websites of the competent authorities (40% in fact request more clarity), only from companies,” they explain. In fact, it can only go unnoticed in companies where it is present. from a human resources office, workers received no support from the latter in 53% of cases.
