Fine Gael: Pandemic has helped us reassess work-life balance
Seanad Spokesperson on Employment Affairs, Work/Life Balance & Northern Ireland, Emer Currie; Fine Gael Party chairman, Richard Bruton; and Minister of State for Business, Employment and Retail, Damien English at the launch of Fine Gael's ‘Measuring Wellbeing: A Fine Discussion Paper’. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Mental health, work-life balance, climate resilience and the level of volunteering in the community should all be used as measures of economic progress in the post-Covid-19 world.
That is the recommendation of a new Fine Gael discussion paper entitled 'Measuring Wellbeing'. The paper argues that using measures such as GDP to track economic progress is not enough, a fuller picture must be captured.
