According to conventional wisdom, protecting work-life balance represents a key feature of stress prevention. Other widely accepted attributes of a ‘good job’ include having comfortable working conditions, such as fair pay, fair treatment, good welfare provision, a suitable balance between being “stretched” without being over-stretched, and social capital. The latter implies a value in social networks that is separate, for example, from monetary gain from work. Implicit in these attributes is an assumption that there is some stability in the relationship between the employer and employee. Going forward, trends towards increased globalisation and technological advances could make it increasingly more difficult to maintain the classical attributes of a ‘good job’, not least because of greater flux in the job market and more transient working.