📝Writer Customer Support Keiko
How do you work? Do you have time to think about your own life?
Recently, work styles have become more diverse, with more people choosing to balance their career and life in a way that suits them, and more companies supporting this, meaning there are now more workstyle options than ever before.
This time, I would like to talk about the career of temporary workers and how to balance it with life, including pregnancy and childbirth.
What career-life balance is right for you?
How do you all balance your career and life?
Some people find a balance by taking full advantage of reduced working hours, remote work, employee benefits, etc., or by receiving support from the government or their families. Others find a balance by making their own efforts or choices. For example,
・Someone who has started a side business while working as a full-time employee, and who has even managed to get pregnant, give birth, and raise a child with the help of those around them. Someone who has fulfilled both their career and life through the power of a team.
・Freelancers who are not tied to marriage or childbirth, who cherish time with their partner and family, and who can shine in their own way by pouring their love into the customers they work with.
・Those who have taken the opportunity of giving birth and raising children to create a job related to children and families while utilizing their interests and experience, and have paved the way for being able to watch over their children's growth through their work.
These are just some examples of people I know who are doing this. There are many ways to balance your career and life through the use of information, teamwork, and ingenuity.
What happens to a temporary worker's career if she becomes pregnant?
So, what happens if you choose to work as a temporary worker, as discussed in this article? What happens to your career if you become pregnant or give birth?
A temporary worker is someone who enters into an employment contract with a staffing agency, is dispatched by the agency to a client company, and provides services to the client company.
Although this is a unique employment form, some women are able to take advantage of it and steadily build their careers while dealing with pregnancy, childbirth, and child-rearing.
Temporary workers have the advantage of being able to choose a company that meets their requirements, and their contracts with the company are renewed more frequently than regular employees. Therefore, even if there are changes in their life stages such as pregnancy or childbirth, they can be introduced to companies that make it easier to balance work and private life, and they can easily discuss the timing of contract renewal with the company in a planned and constructive manner through the temporary employment agency.
Some people want to face pregnancy and childbirth while maintaining their connections with society and having peace of mind and body. They also want to advance their careers once their children grow up, so they want to continue working and honing their skills, even reskilling! With these thoughts in mind, many people choose to work as a temporary employee.
It's not something to be greedy about, it's a wonderful thing.
What do you want to do?
This time, we looked at the career and life balance of temporary workers, but there are many different types of work, such as full-time employment, starting a business, or being a freelancer, and I think that with each person's own ingenuity, there are an infinite number of ways to balance career and life.
・Is it impossible to advance my career as a temporary worker?
・If I'm a full-time employee, isn't it practically impossible to balance work and child-rearing?
・Starting a business seems difficult
・Freelancing is free but unstable, so I wonder if I can make a living.
No matter what choice you make, if you think about it alone, more and more anxiety will arise.
Recently, various laws and systems have been put in place to support workers' rights at work and to help them balance their careers and lives, and as a result, companies are increasingly stepping up their support for balancing work and life. Also, by coming into contact with many examples of innovative solutions, you may be able to find hints for a balance that suits you.
At EggU, career coaches provide counseling tailored to each client's career and work-life balance needs, and share knowledge and case studies. We also share various case studies on Instagram .
At EggU, we hope that "knowing" will be the first step in opening the door to becoming the person you truly want to be, and we will continue to support women who want to value both their careers and their lives.
📝Writer Customer Support Keiko
She has experience in a variety of industries (hotels, foreign companies (pharmaceutical companies and consumer goods manufacturers), flower shops, and human resources agencies), employment status (full-time, temporary, freelance), and occupations (sales promotion, human resources, weddings, team assistant/secretary, flower designer), and is a mother of two children, one in high school and one in elementary school, who has adapted her work style to suit what she wants to do and the growth of her children.
