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Work-life Balance: A Growing Struggle A) We can email, text, face-book and tweet anywhere, anytime. But have smart-phones and tablets (平板电脑 ) made it easier to balance work with the rest of life? B) In the decade since John Howard dubbed the work-life balance a “barbecue stopper”, mobile technologies have revolutionized work for many Australians. They have eliminated the physical boundaries that once defined workplaces and allowed employees unprecedented Commented [1]: 优点 flexibility in where and when they work. But new technologies can be a mixed blessing for workers. The office is always in your pocket. C) The Australian Work and Life Index, prepared by the Centre for Work + Life at the University of South Australia, has tracked the work-life experience of Australian workers for five years. The latest report, titled “The Big Squeeze”, shows little improvement in work-life outcomes in that time. According to the centre’s director and a co-author of the report, Professor Barbara Pocock, at least a quarter of Australian workers are badly affected by work-life interference. “We are not seeing a runaway train here but we are seeing a problem that is affecting a lot of people and Commented [2]: 缺点 it is very persistent,” Pocock says. D) However, there is one group for which things are getting Commented [3]: worse: full-time women workers. That group’s dissatisfaction wi