Britain's family revolution

A lot of life coaching seems to get taken up with issues of work-life balance and so it is interesting to see this poll showing that younger wrkers are increasingly looking to quality of life issues for fulfilment rather than the workplace itself. Perhaps life coaches are really the sticking-plaster whereas the UK government efforts towards family-friendly working practices are the systemic level of fix comparable to removing the dangerous equipment rather than simply patching up people when it actually hurts them.

Interesting too though, the issues about how these kinds of measures have a knock-on effect and how we manage those too. Certainly I recognize the dynamics of discussion from my own ministry over the last 18 years.

A wider context though is how to share out work so that the disparities between the chronically over-worked and the underemployed are ironed out to everyone's mutual benefit.

Then specifying this to the churches; overworked ministers and priests who would really like to do things differently but can't, partly held in place by the prison/enabler of the stipend/housing/pension package deal ... I need to add this into my thinking about how we manage paid employment in the churches.