SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –
67.5% of people who have teleworked in the Canary Islands in the last two years somewhat or very much agree with this work formula because they consider that it improves family conciliation, according to the module on work conciliation and co-responsibility incorporated this quarter in the Socioeconomic Habits and Confidence Survey (ECOSOC), of the Canarian Institute of Statistics (ISTAC), which has been designed together with the Vice-Ministry of Equality and Diversity of the Department of Social Welfare of the Government of the Canary Islands.
By sex, 46.9% of the women surveyed completely agree with the improvement that teleworking has brought compared to 24.8% of the men.
This is the first time that Istac includes a specific module to analyze work-life balance and family co-responsibility in its Socioeconomic Habits and Confidence Survey.
This will provide the opportunity to know reliable data that facilitates the design of policies and decision-making on Equality.
This module addresses the distribution of care tasks at home, including the care of minors and dependent people, the reconciliation of work, family and personal life, co-responsibility and teleworking and its possible consequences on work-life balance, it includes a istac note.
In the section on household chores, although in 68% of cases they are done jointly, 23% of women say they do it alone compared to 9.1% of men. On average, about 22 hours a week are dedicated to these tasks, although, by sex, women work an average of 26 hours compared to 18 for men.
The care of minors is also carried out mostly on a shared basis, with 58.4% of cases shared with the partner.
Furthermore, 18.9% of people surveyed claim to dedicate themselves to this care alone, although, by sex, it is observed that 23.5% of women are the main caregivers of minors alone compared to 13.9%. of men.
More than twice as many women (45.2%) as men (23.1%) surveyed say that having minors in the home has led them to give up job opportunities and 54.2% of those surveyed say they give up on time of leisure, training or rest to take care of the family and home, with a somewhat higher percentage among women (57%) than among men (51.3%).
More than 50% of the people surveyed claim to have had no difficulty in combining work life with family and personal life, or this difficulty has been minimal.
The conciliation measures that present the most problems are the flexibility of both schedules in general and when entering and leaving work. However, 60.6% of employed people consider that companies are not committed to reconciling family and work life, a percentage that rises to 67.2% in the case of women.
