[*] Juggling Work-Life Balance in South Australia: The Australian Work and Life Index 2010
Thursday, 1 July 2010
This report sets out a 2010 benchmark for work-life outcomes in South Australia. It analyses these work-life outcomes by various sub-groups, compares them with Australia as a whole and contrasts them with the earlier period of 2008/09. [View]

[*] How Much Should We Work: Working Hours, Holidays and Working Life: The Participation Challenge. The Australian Work and Life Index 2010
Thursday, 1 July 2010
The latest national work-life survey of Australian workers shows that there are no signs that things are getting easier on the work-life balance front. [View]

[*] Work, Home and Community: Findings from the Household Survey
Monday, 30 November 2009
This report provides the results of surveys to households (647 responses) in the 10 Australian communities participating in the Work, Home and Community Research Project. [View]

[*] Mobility Mothers and Malls: How Home, Community, School & Work Affect Opportunity for Teenagers in Suburban Australia
Monday, 30 November 2009
This report aids our understanding of how teenagers live their lives within the space and time constraints of an adult world, and in the context of changing work and household patterns in Australia. [View]

[*] Sustainable Lives in Sustainable Communities? Living and Working in Ten Australian Suburbs: Full Report
Monday, 30 November 2009
This is the full report from the Work, Home and Community Research Project conducted by the Centre for Work + Life, University of South Australia, between 2006 and 2009. [View]

The Meaning of Work, Well-Being and the Changing Terms, Times and Spaces of Service Sector Jobs
Saturday, 1 January 2011
This research investigates how work and its terms, timing, technologies and location are changing, and how these affect well being. It will analyse the meaning that service sector workers draw from work, and how workers at the top (like professionals and consultants) compare with those at the lower end (like carers and cleaners). [View]

Work, Life and Sustainable Living: How Work, Household and Community Life Interact to Affect Environmental Behaviours and Outcomes
Monday, 28 June 2010
The project addresses the research priority of an environmentally sustainable Australia. It examines how the circumstances and interaction of work, home and community affect capacities to reduce negative environmental impacts especially workplace and household transport, waste, energy and water use practices. The project brings the changing configuration of work to the fore, addressing a gap in current research. It examines the implications for environmental change of the temporal and spatial organisation of 'work-life', including analysis of [View]

[*] Work-life balance still a big squeeze for Aussie workers
Monday, 24 September 2012
Australians' work-life outcomes have not improved over the past five years, according to the findings of the latest Australian Work and Life Index (AWALI) survey. [View]

[*] Research opens the door to skills education for low earners
Monday, 3 March 2008
UniSA's Centre for Work and Life has been selected to join a major research effort aimed at identifying which factors will encourage more people, particularly those with lower education and pay levels, to engage in Vocational Education and Training (VET). [View]

SA verdict on WorkChoices overwhelmingly negative
Thursday, 26 July 2007
A new research report released in South Australia on July 24rth shows that WorkChoices is having a serious effect on local workers and their families. [View]

[*] Australian workers feel the work-life squeeze
Thursday, 28 June 2007
More than half of Australian employees surveyed in the first national survey of work-life outcomes - the Australian Work Life Index (AWALI) - believe that work sometimes, often or always affects their lives outside of work. [View]

[*] A new index to work life balance
Monday, 16 April 2007
Balancing work and life has become one of the hottest issues on the life agenda for Australians in the 21st century. In a major national initiative led by the University of South Australia, researchers are set to establish the Australian Work and Life Index to identify just how work is affecting people on the home front and how home life may affect work. [View]