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The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work is a 1997 book bysociologistArlie Russell Hochschild. The book refers to the blurring distinction between work and homesocial environments.
Hochschild found in her research that although most working parents, particularlymothers, said "family comes first", few of them considered adjusting their long working hours, even when their workplaces offeredflextime,parental leave,remote work, or other "family friendly" policies. She concluded that the roles of home and work had reversed: work had become more attractive, offering a sense of belonging, while home had grown morestressful, becoming a dreaded place with too many demands.[citation needed]
