Anne and her husband Johannes Bulko, who have a 2-year-old son, Olvar, share one job — packer in a drug supply firm. They work alternate weeks. The spouse who's not working stays at home with Olvar and takes correspondence courses. "Our employer doesn't mind at all," said Johannes, "as long as there is always one Bulko signing in in the morning."

Sound like a novel arrangement? In fact, the details above are lifted almost wholesale from a story that ran in TIME Magazine about 40 years ago. The article described a pioneering five-year experiment, sponsored by the Norwegian government and conducted by sociologist Eric Grønseth to explore a radically different model of work-life balance. Thirty-two people took part, switching off between home and family. Some couples worked alternate days, and some alternate weeks. The Work Sharing Couples Project, devised and conducted by two men, ran from 1970 until 1975. As a point of reference, Ms. magazine was founded in 1972.

via healthland.time.com

Getting breakfast programs running is a challenge because the province has stopped paying program co-ordinators, some of P.E.I.'s larger schools say .

Forty-eight Island schools receive funding from the province to run breakfast programs. For the past number of years, nine of the larger schools in the Eastern School District have received extra money to hire program co-ordinators.

However, this year the committee that oversees the program decided to stop paying the coordinators.

"It was felt that it wasn't really fair to all programs in the province because only a handful of programs were receiving funds for an on-site co-ordinator," said Charmaine Campbell, co-ordinator of the P.E.I. Advisory Council for Breakfast for Learning.

"Right now, it's just going to be reallocated in a different format, so it'll be more equitable and be distributed to all programs across the province."

via www.cbc.ca