Family-friendly work policies stir up resentment

In the U.K. a proposed law that would extend the same benefits parents get to those without kids isn't doing much to ease tensions around the worplace, as this article in the Daily Mail reports:

In most modern offices today, a division exists between those who have children and those who don't.

Offices, factories, surgeries, shops and studios are having to cope with increasing incidents of job jealousy — between those who insist on more time with their children and those who are forced to take up the slack which their colleagues with families leave behind.

So one might imagine that this week's news that Beverley Hughes, the Minister for Children, wants to introduce flexible working rights for all employees — not just those with children under six — would have signalled a rapprochement between the two warring factions.

I very much doubt it.

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