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Employees with caring responsibilities face higher risks of emotional exhaustion when working from home, but having more control over their own schedules helps to alleviate it, new research suggests.

The findings highlight that conversations about flexibility often are – but shouldn't be – diminished to questions of where an employee works, says the CEO of Parents At Work, Emma Walsh.

Employers should give equal consideration to "how you work and of course, when you work", she tells HR Daily.

"I know this sounds trite, but genuinely it comes down to treating people like adults, first of all, and giving people the appropriate boundaries in which work can be performed..."