A brand new report by the 2020 Modern Families Index has found that more parents now feel under pressure to check their work emails in the evening.
The 2020 Modern Families Index discovered that 44% of parents check their emails or carry out other forms of work at night time. Three quarters of those in the study, felt they had no choice, an increase since the study was carried out last year which is causing tension at home with more than half of respondents saying it led to arguments with their children or partner.
According to the report said the ability of working parents to "switch off" from their work was being undermined by the rise of modern communications, with almost half of those questioned agreeing that there was a blourring of the boundaries between home and the workplace.
The study also found that more parents thought their bosses were noticing the importance of their staff having a work-life balance, and that the majority of them wanted to get the balance right.
The study of more than 3,000 parents found that 60% of those working longer hours believed it to be the only way they could cope with their workload and half of those parents who work from home ended up working even longer hours.
Speaking to the BBC Jan van Zyl, who runs the charity Working Families which commissioned the report said: "The research makes clear that jobs need to be 'human-sized".
In regards to childcare the report found that there was still significant differences between men and women with less than a third of parents saying they share childcare equally. On average, women ended up spending 26 hours a week caring for their children or doing household chores compared to men who spend just 16 hours doing childcare or chores. This is, however, increased since the 70s when men's involvement with their children was believed to be less than 15 minutes a day.
