Work Life Balance and Remote Working during the Pandemic: Assessment of Parents’ Working Conditions in Polish Reality

The study analyzes the issue of reconciliation of private and professional life during the COVID-19 pandemic. For some time now, problems in reconciling work and private life have been noted. The global lockdown has forced workers and employers to change the conditions and the manner in which they work. At the same time, many parents were confronted with the need to reconcile professional work with parental responsibilities in a situation where educational institutions could not provide direct childcare. Parents had to perform their family duties during standard working hours with additional tasks resulting from home education, the required social isolation and childcare. During the pandemic, a strong blurring of boundaries between professional and private life and problems of symbiosis of professional and family duties has taken place. The aim of the study is to indicate the importance of the idea of Work Life Balance in the perspective of changes in the labor market caused by the Covid-19.