Today’s best managers know that work-family conflict means that the demands from work and from family collide with each other. The level of work-family conflict that employees perceive tends to be stable and unchanging over time, even over long periods such as six years. If demands on an employee’s time and energy are exceeded, then exhaustion and extreme tiredness can result. When employees become exhausted with their job, psychological stress and distress can result. Then, the distress can lead to parental stress at home. Employees of both genders tend to have these same experiences.
Source: Rantanen, J., Kinnunen, U., Feldt, R., & Pulkkinen, L. 2008. Work-family conflict and psychological well-being: Stability and cross-lagged relations within one- and six-year follow-ups. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 73, 37-51.
