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Statistics:

Working & Parenthood:

  • The strong labour market in the last ten years attracted more women, mothers with dependent children, youth and older workers in the labour force—groups that generally prefer varied hours. ¹
  • One of every three women in the workforce aged 15 to 54 (35.3%) were mothers of children less than 16 years of age in 2006. Over the last 30 years, mothers have seen their employment rate almost double, from 39.1% in 1976 to 72.9% in 2006. ¹
  • 80% of women with children that are employed full time are stressed and feel there is not enough time in the day. ²
  • 73% of women with children that are employed full time feel there is not enough time for family and friends. ²
  • 61% of women with children that are employed full time would like more time alone and 60% feel there is no time for fun. ²
  • 63% of women with children that are employed full time say they cut back on sleep and 59% say they don’t accomplish everything they want in a day. ²
  • 64% of men with children that are employed full time are stressed and feel there is not enough time in the day. ²
  • 67% of men with children that are employed full time feel there is not enough time for family and friends. ²
  • 61% of men with children that are employed full time say they cut back on sleep and 45% say they don’t accomplish everything they want in a day. ²

References:
¹ See Statistics Canada, 2008, “Perspectives on labour and income”, Catalogue no. 75-001-X, Vol. 9, No. 3
² See Statistics Canada, 1998, “Work, Parenthood, and the experience of time scarcity”, Catalogue no. 89-584-MIE, No. 1

Workplace Stress

  • According to the 2001 Canadian Mental Health survey, 51% of respondents felt that work was a major or moderate source of stress. ¹
  • 34% of working Canadians reported excessive demands/hours as the most common source of workplace stress.
  • More than 70% of adults who’ve experienced a major depressive episode were employed in that year. For both sexes, high stress on and off the job was associated with depression. Men in high strain jobs      were 2.5 times likely than their counterparts in low strain jobs to have experienced depression; women were 1.6 times more likely. ³

References:
¹ The 2001 Canadian Mental Health Survey conducted by COMPAS
² See Statistics Canada, 2003, “Stress at Work”, Catalogue no.75-001-XIE, Vol. 4, No. 1
³See Statistics Canada, Health Reports, 2008, Catalogue no. 82-003-XIE, Vol. 19, No. 2

Career and Care giving:

  • In 2002, over 1.7 million adults, aged 45 to 64, provided informal care to almost 2.3 million seniors with long-term disabilities or physical limitations. ¹
  • 70% of the caregivers were employed. 65% of women and 47% of men who combined high levels of care giving with paid employment had to make adjustments on their job such as reduce hours worked, change work patterns or turn down a job offer or promotion. ¹
  • 82% of working women reported sometimes or nearly always feeling stressed balancing their work and care giving responsibilities. While men showed a similar pattern, they generally reported stress less often than women. ¹
  • 77% of women and 57% of men working over 40 hours a week said occasional relief from their care giving responsibilities would ease the strain. ¹

References:
¹ See Statistics Canada, 2006, “Balancing Career and Care”, Catalogue no. 75-001-XIESick

Leave & Absenteeism:

  • The economy loses the services of roughly 1 out of every 20 employees monthly, for an average of 11 weeks, to a long term sickness absence. ¹ 

References:
¹ See Statistics Canada, 2006, “On Sick Leave”, Catalogue no. 75-001-XIE, Vol. 7, No. 4

Employee Retention:

  • Approximately 1 in 12 (1.3 million) Canadian workers are not satisfied with their jobs. Clear associations emerged between the amount of job stress workers perceived and their job satisfaction levels. For workers who found most days extremely stressful, 1 in 4 were dissatisfied with their jobs.¹
  • Job dissatisfaction was also related to the number of disability days workers had in the previous two weeks. For every 100 workers who were very satisfied with their jobs, 47 disability days were reported, but for every 100 workers who reported that they were not at all satisfied with their jobs, the figure was 129 disability days.¹

References:
¹ See Statistics Canada, 2006, “Unhappy on the job”, Catalogue no.82-003, Vol. 17, No. 4