Corporate counsel are turning down promotions, scaling back work and taking time off due to family responsibilities, according to Robin Myers, the director of research at the Association of Corporate Counsel. She tackles the subject of work-life balance for in-house counsel in a recent ACC blog post. “The sandwich generation, those who care for their parents and children simultaneously, are torn between maintaining a successful career and a caregiver’s obligations,” she says.
The ACC’s Global Work-Life Balance Report states a whopping 71 percent of respondents have taken time off to care for children or aging family members and more than a quarter transferred to another job that was more accommodating to their caregiving responsibilities. “The loss of hours and pay, as well as an increase in stress, is enormous,” says Myers.
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