Smart working increases the number of children

Smart working, when done seriously and responsibly, offers many advantages for both workers and companies: it improves the quality of free time, reduces travel costs, and increases employee productivity.

But now, thanks to one scientific study From an English source, we know one more thing, a very important one: smart working helps people have children. The research, conducted by a group of researchers at King's College London (particularly economists like Cevat Giray Aksoy), found a rather clear result: Smart working is associated with a greater likelihood of having children and slightly larger families.

The study sample wasn't even small, but it included couples who benefited from smart working at least one day a week in 40 countries around the world. These couples tend to have more children than those who work in person all the time, confirming that smart working encourages parenting plans. According to the research data, fertility could increase on average by approximately 0,3 children per woman In couples who regularly work from home, births are 14 percent higher for those who work from home than for those who only work in person, five days out of five.

The main mechanism that explains these data is not “psychological”, but very practical:

• less time wasted on transport
• greater flexibility in managing children
• easier to coordinate work and family life
• reducing the “organizational cost” of having a child
• reduction in the perceived cost of the first child.

According to the work of researchers at King's College London, smart working it doesn't create the desire for children out of thin air, but makes it easier to implement, and this is reflected in a significant increase in the birth rate.