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COVID-19 And The Difficult Life Of UK Workers Dealing With Homeschooling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two in five (41%) parents working from home are finding the stress of homeschooling difficult, on\u00a0average, they\u2019re spending three hours during the working day looking after their children, however, a third (35%) want their working patterns to stay the same post-lockdown, UK employers have introduced various measures to help employees who are homeschooling and two fifths (39%) of working UK adults are homeschooling their children while balancing full time jobs, new research from Canada Life today reveals.<\/p>\n

Canada Life polled parents who are homeschooling<\/a>, and UK employers, to understand how workers are fairing during lockdown. On average, parents are spending three hours a day – or 15 hours a week homeschooling their children. They are therefore only working \u2018in the office\u2019 for three and half hours a day and are then spending two hours working after bedtime every evening to make up for lost time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nDaily<\/strong><\/td>\nWeekly<\/strong><\/td>\nRespective % of working week<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hours spent \u2018in the office\u2019 working<\/td>\n3 hours 30<\/td>\n17 hours 30<\/td>\n47%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hours spent homeschooling<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n41%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hours spent catching up after bedtime<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n27%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

With the Government announcing that schools won\u2019t be open full time until September, four in ten workers who are homeschooling (41%) admit that the stress of balancing this is becoming difficult. However, more than a third (35%) want their working patterns to stay the same when the lockdown restrictions are lifted; only a quarter (26%) want to return to a physical workplace, compared to 32% who want to work from home more often.<\/p>\n

Leading by example<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Employers have mostly been quick to respond and accommodate working parents. With one in four (39%) small business decision makers homeschooling their own children, the majority (87%) of parents say their employer has introduced flexible measures during lockdown. These include:<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Flexible hours (24%)<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Reducing parents\u2019 workplace responsibilities (19%)<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Cutting back the number of meetings parents have to attend (17%)<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Implementing role-sharing between colleagues where possible (10%)<\/p>\n

SME decision makers who are homeschooling themselves are more likely to have introduced flexible measures for parents; 84% of those who are balancing the classroom and working life themselves have introduced flexible measures for their employees, compared to just 33% among those who aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Overall, two thirds (67%) of employers think the measures they\u2019ve introduced are sufficient, but a fifth (20%) are still planning to do more because they don\u2019t feel like they\u2019ve done enough. One in ten (9%) know that they haven’t done enough to support working parents, but can\u2019t do anything else; this is higher among those who aren\u2019t homeschooling (14%) than those who are (6%).<\/p>\n

Paul Avis, Canada Life group insurance marketing director said<\/strong>: \u201cNo one could have predicted at the start of the year that parents across the country would be balancing the pressure of full-time jobs with homeschooling their children. It\u2019s a really stressful time for everyone, but parents with young children have been particularly affected. It\u2019s really positive that employers are taking their responsibilities seriously and supporting staff playing the role of parent, teacher, and employee.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have a group protection policy in place, you\u2019ll likely have access to a range of support services with your cover.\u00a0 Canada Life for example has recently launched \u2018WeCare\u20193<\/sup>, an extensive range of virtual support services covering health, mental health and wellbeing support, which is available for free to over 9,000 employers, supporting 150,000 employees and their families.<\/p>\n

\u201cWords like \u2018unprecedented\u2019 have probably been overused, but having researched the many issues with our current working practices over the years, I believe that out of this adverse situation, a beneficial outcome is on the horizon, with working from home and work-life balance now being recognised by employers as a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two in five (41%) parents working from home are finding the stress of homeschooling difficult, on\u00a0average, they\u2019re spending three hours during the working day looking after their children, however, a third (35%) want their working patterns to stay the same post-lockdown, UK employers have introduced various measures to help employees who are homeschooling and two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3585],"tags":[3468,7008,5212],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHome schooling Canada: A Third Of Parents Playing Teacher<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Recently because of the COVID-19\u00a0 pandemic the homeschooling levels in Canada have raised heavily as they see it as the best option due to the crisis shutting schools down but this has also caused loads of problems for parents.\" \/>\n<meta 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