WORK-LIFE DEBATES
November 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLA EUROPEAN Union (EU) conference on improving the balance between work and life has concluded that "we will probably need to work longer in the future". A communiqué released by the Foundation Forum, staged in Dublin, however, added that "we also need to work smarter". The conference - organised by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions - advised companies to invest in management and organisation, enabling workers to be more flexible, maybe combining work tasks with domestic chores, for instance. Such ...
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