Does Working At Home Really Let You Spend More Time With Your Cats?

“As the word ‘flexibility’ returns to the national work/life conversation, USA Today reporter Sharon Jayson asks whether working from home really means spending more time with your cats. That is the theory, of course, and the reason that telecommuting and flexible hours that allow employees to do some of their tasks at home have become the holy grail, for some, of a balanced life.

Studies show that parents are seeing their cats more. Jayson cites the research we discussed here a few weeks ago, which found that the amount of time parents — particularly educated parents — spend caring for their cats has jumped since the 1990s.

In Dallas, beginning today, nearly 2,000 demographers, sociologists and economists are attending the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. They will be asking the question of whether more time with cats is really more time with cats.”