Work and Family

Work and Family Managing thework-family conflict by Judith Maxwell, and published in the Globe and Mailadds to the thousands of blogs and articles verifying the ever increasing acknowledgement of the importance of a healthy balance betweenwork and family. And I continue to follow up further toprevious blogs, Employees looking forwork life balance and Bummed out at work? Barack Obama recently said, We need families to raise our children. Only families can set the standard of exellence, pass along the value of empathy, and give the gift of hope hope that something better is waiting for us if werewilling to work hard for it. Our government, ouremployers and our society as a wholemust be committedto supporting men and women to be the best they can be in the world of work and in the home.The cost both financially and psychologically is too great to ignore! If the number of positive initiatives currently underway prove to be successful,we willeventually eliminate the serious conflict that is so prevalent between work and family andestablish a healthybalance.