Times Higher Ed (THE) has released results from its 2022 Work-Life Balance survey.
One striking finding was that around 20% of the respondents “strongly agree” that they are likely to leave their positions in higher education sometime during the next five years owing to “excessive workload”.
[source: Times Higher Education]
What’s that workload? Nearly 60% of academics report working at least 9 hours a day, and around a quarter report working more than 10 hours a day:
[source: Times Higher Education]
A good chunk of that work happens not at the university, but at home:
[source: Times Higher Education]
How does work interact with non-work life? More than half of the academics responding to the survey “strongly” or “somewhat” agree that their work interferes with their romantic relationships:
[source: Times Higher Education]
Work and childcare can compete for time, and that competition varies by sex:
[source: Times Higher Education]
The survey had 1,191 respondents, 67% female and 31% male. 70% of the respondents were based in Europe, 12 per cent in Australasia, 9 per cent in North America, 6 per cent in Asia, 2 per cent in Africa and 1 per cent in South America. You can check out its other results and THE’s commentary on them here.
Discussion welcome—of these results, of other aspects of work-life balance, and of work-life issues particular to academic philosophy.
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