Balancing business and personal needs
A successful business needs to recruit and retain talented
people. The needs of businesses and individuals differ, however. A
good work-life strategy balances needs and encourages synergy.
The Business Case
What your business wants:
- Employee productivity
- Reduction in absenteeism
- Attraction and retention of talent
- To become a world class employer
- To increase numbers of women at a senior level
- To encourage women to return to work after maternity leave
- To improve employee health
How your business benefits from a good work-life
strategy:
- Minimal set-up costs of many flexible working provisions
- Financial savings
- New job creation
- A more flexible approach to organisational change
Find out more about the business
benefits
The Employee Case
What your employees want:
- Good quality of life
- An enjoyable work life and career progression
- Training and development
- Good health
- Affordable childcare or eldercare
- Further education
- More money
- Time to travel
- Time with friends and family
- Time to do sports and hobbies
- Time to do voluntary work
How you benefit from supporting your employees
- employees are:
- More satisfied at work
- More focused
- More productive
- More co-operative
- Better at managing their time
Where to next?
The core elements of a work-life strategy
Develop work-life policies that are right for
your businss
The business benefits of work-life balance
Corporate case studies
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