‘Work-life unbalanced: Slings and Arrows’
World Childless Week, day 5,’ No Kids! Do you want mine?
In many workplaces the divide between work and home has reduced as we continue to enjoy the freedom that working from home brings. We are able to spend more time with our families, our hobbies, and our pets. What has been observed in many workplaces is that this freedom has also brought with it an unbalanced swing to the work life divide as people bring their children into zoom meetings, leave meetings to answer a child’s query, or dominate workplace conversations with child focussed talk.
This work life divide becoming unbalanced has the potential to not only amplify the triggers of loss and longing for CNBC colleagues, it also brings exclusion to the workday as the almost invisible minority of CNBC people are unable to contribute to these conversations.
What many don’t realise is that these slings and arrows also have the potential to impact mental and emotional wellbeing, morale and productivity.
Join us as we uncover the types of conversations that need to be avoided and ask how can we manage our own wellbeing at work and how can people with children be allies to CNBC colleagues just as they would to another minority in the workplace.
Anne Altamore: https://www.lifeafterivf.com.au/about
Dr Robin Hadley: https://www.robinhadley.co.uk/
World Childless Week: https://worldchildlessweek.net/
World Childless Week aims to raise awareness of the childless not by choice (cnbc) community and enable every childless person to share their story with confidence. It’s for anyone who is childless despite their longing to be a parent because they have never been pregnant (for any reason), not carried full term or have suffered the sadness of a baby born sleeping. All our Ambassadors and founder Steph, are childless not by choice.
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