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These changes have had, and continue to have, a major impact on the work-life balance of Canadians – that is, on our ability to balance work and personal demands.  \nLinda Duxbury and Christopher Higginsi, leading thinkers on organizational well-being, have been studying work-life balance issues in Canada since the early 1990s. They note that, in addition to significant demographic changes including “increased longevity, coupled with declining fertility rates,[which] means that Canada’s population is aging as is its workforce”(Duxbury & Higgins, p. 3), the structure of Canadian families has changed dramatically over the past few decades. They paint this portrait of the complex nature of contemporary families:  \nCanadian families today look very different than in the past. They are smaller; more diverse in terms of structure, patterns of functioning and heritage; more complex;  \nless stable; less likely to have as much free time; and more likely to break up. There are also now more (1) dual-income families; (2) working heads of single-parent families; (3) working women of all ages; (4) working mothers, particularly mothers of young children; (5) men with direct responsibility for family care; (6) workers caring for elderly parents or relatives; and (7) workers in the “Sandwich Generation” who are responsible for both childcare and eldercare. (Duxbury & Higgins, 2013, p. 3)  \nEconomic factors also have a bearing on our ability to balance our work and personal lives. This includes the growth in non-standard low-wage precarious jobs in the service sector combined with fewer well-paying unionized jobs in the manufacturing sector and downsizing by Canadian private and other organizations during a prolonged economic recession. Duxbury and Higgins also remark on the “polarization in the hours Canadians spend in paid employment: some Canadians devote long hours to their work (fearing for their jobs and working in intensely competitive work environments), while others struggle to get enough hours of paid employment to provide for themselves and their families.” (p. 4)  \nIn addition as Duxbury and Higgins note, rapid technological change has served to intensify working conditions by creating expectations for rapid response and 24/7 availability, often blurring the line between work and home life.  \nTechnological advances that began several decades ago have exacerbated many of these issues by allowing people to work “anytime, anywhere.” In many cases, these advances have blurred the boundaries between work and non-work, increased the pace of work and changed service delivery  \nexpectations. (p. 4)  \nSome of these factors also impact the work-life balance of the teaching profession.  \nNot surprisingly there are high economic costs associated with work-life imbalance in  \nCanada. According to Duxbury and Higgins, “our inability to balance our jobs and our home  \n1  \nlife is costing corporate Canada as much as $10-billion a year in rising absenteeism, lost output, lower productivity, missed deadlines and grumpy customers”. (McKenna, 2012)  \nWhat we know about teacher workload  \nTeacher workload issues have been well documented in Canada as in many other countries. 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