SOCB49H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: General Social Survey
29 Oct 2015
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In 2003, canadian workers surveyed that the main indicator of a successful career was achieving a work-life balance. Beating salary, job challenges and level of responsibility. Give them employees more flexibility in terms of work hours. Wanting to spend time with your family is now seen as a weakness. Using four different cycles of the general social survey (gss) looking at factors that contribute to time spent with family. Working are spending less time with family than they did 20 years ago. In 1986 from 4. 2 hours to 3. 4 hours in 2005. Decrease is seen across all religions, levels of education and nearly all age groups. Friends can make up park of people"s social networks, taking time that could be spend with family members. This number has also decreased from (from 1986 to 2005) from 44 minutes to 19 minutes. Workers living with one child under 5 spent the most time with family.
