Work-life balance - FAQs
1. What is work-life balance?
2. Why should business care?
3. Isn’t work-life balance just for parents - particularly mothers?
4. What about people who love to work?
5. Doesn’t the work-life balance debate just demonise the workplace?
6. Is work-life balance just a fad?
7. So has work-life balance been fully embraced by the business community?
8. Is there really a ‘long hours culture’ in the UK?
9. Don’t people who work long hours do so because they want to?
10. Doesn’t a desire for work-life balance brand you as uncommitted and unmotivated?
11. The phrase ‘work-life balance’ suggests there is an ideal balance that everyone should have.
12. What does ‘life’ mean in the phrase ‘work-life balance’?
13. Is there any legislation to help people get work-life balance?
14. Don’t work-life balance policies favour parents?
15. Do employees without children get left out or have to work harder to make up for the time their colleagues with children take off?
16. But work-life balance is just for big business, isn’t it?
17. Doesn’t work-life balance make companies uncompetitive?
18. What is the Employers for Work-Life Balance website for?
19. What has EfWLB achieved so far?
20. What is the Work Foundation going to do to develop the site?
21. Why do organisations bother with work-life balance?
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