A new US-based survey from The Workforce Institute at Kronos looks at how working parents, and working people in general, are feeling as Fall approaches and the global pandemic we are all living through shows no signs of slowing down.

• Nearly three-quarters (72%) of U.S. employees with children under 18 in the household are anxious about balancing the demands of their job with childcare – including school re-openings, virtual learning, and daycare capacity – in the coming months.
• Both employees working remotely due to COVID-19 (68%) and employees who worked remotely prior to COVID-19 (64%) feel this year’s stress-inducing events are affecting their work at higher rates than employees still going into a physical workplace (55%).
• Two-thirds of 18-34-year-olds (66%) and nearly three-quarters (72%) of employees aged 35-44 say stress caused by 2020’s events is impacting their work, which is higher than older age groups, including 45-54 (60%) and 55+ (49%).
• And it’s not just parents of young kids that employers need to be worried about: Employees without children under 18 may need more encouragement to take time-off to mentally and physically rest and recharge. Just a third (37%) have done so since the start of COVID-19 (as opposed to 58% of employed parents with children under 18), potentially putting them at risk of burning out.