Families among the beneficiaries of Four-Hour Work Day

Australian Institute
of Family Studies
researcher ,
Jennifer Baxter.

Families would be among the prime beneficiaries of the Four-Hour Work Day.

A survey by the Australian Institute of Family Studies has found the one in three 10-year-old children say their parents work too hard, and 25 per cent of parents agree.

Institute researchers asked a large group of children aged 10 to 11 – about 4000 of them – what they thought about their parents working habits. About 35 per cent of those children thought their fathers worked too much, while 27 per cent said their mothers worked too much.

A story headed: “Kids feel family time suffers when mum and dad are overworked” appeared in today’s (April 14) Melbourne Age.