Austria - Balance between work and childcare - December 31, 2020

Balancing work and childcare became more difficult during the second lockdown. According to a Sora study, the working hours of working parents are approaching pre-crisis levels. Although schools remained open, only around 30% of the children were in care. The fact that home office and childcare are difficult to combine and that not everyone has the opportunity to work at home has already got around in the crisis year. For this study 685 parents of children up to 14 years of age were surveyed during the second lockdown between November 19 and 27 and the data were compared with a survey from the spring.

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