Publications on Work-life balance

  1. Costs and benefits of investing in transformative care policy packages: A macrosimulation study in 82 countries

    09 March 2022

  2. Care at work: Investing in care leave and services for a more gender equal world of work

    07 March 2022

    The report provides a global overview of national laws and practices regarding care policies, namely maternity protection, paternity, parental and other care-related leave policies, as well as childcare and long-term care services.

  3. Crowdwork for young people: Risks and opportunities

    21 February 2022

  4. Healthy and Safe Telework

    02 February 2022

    This brief provides information about the health impact of telework and guidance on how to organize telework to protect and promote physical and mental health and social wellbeing of workers.

  5. World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2022

    17 January 2022

    This ILO flagship report details the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the world of work.

  6. Towards a human-centred agenda: Human resource management in the BRICS countries in the face of global challenges

    02 December 2021

    This book examines novel evidence of human-centred human resources management (HRM) practices in five leading emerging economies, namely Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa.

  7. World Social Protection Report 2020–22: Regional companion report for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

    30 November 2021

    This regional companion report for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is intended to complement the ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2021–22. Social Protection at the Crossroads – in Pursuit of a Better Future. The regional companion report first gives a global perspective that is taken from the main report and outlines recent developments in social protection systems worldwide. It then highlights key developments, challenges and priorities for social protection in the MENA region.

  8. How to promote disability inclusion in programmes to prevent, address and eliminate violence and harassment in the world of work

    30 November 2021

    This information note promotes the inclusion of persons with disabilities in programmes to prevent, address and eliminate violence and harassment in the world of work. It is aimed at everyone in the world of work and, in particular, at government officials, members of trade unions and representatives of workers’ organizations, and enterprises and their representative organizations. It is relevant in applying the ILO’s Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) and Violence and Harassment Recommendation, 2019 (No. 206).

  9. Principles and guidelines for human factors / ergonomics (HFE) design and management of work systems.

    04 November 2021

  10. Gender perspective in child labour - Executive summary

    25 October 2021

    This study seeks to understand, from a gende rperspective, how the living conditions of families,how the professional careers of adults and how the sexual division of labour in households affect the associations that Children and Adolescents(C&As) establish with labour and how they affect the construction of expectations and imaginaries with respect to the future labour opportunities of C&As.