Work-life Balance: Making it work for your business

Steps for developing a work-life balance strategy

Every organisation will find its own way of dealing with work-life balance issues. However, those organisations that respond most successfully to these issues tend to follow a similar path, and to work in partnership with their employees and their representatives. They will typically set up a working group of employee, union and management representatives, to guide them along this path.

Step by step checklist

The checklist outlines the key steps in developing work-life balance practices in a business or organisation. The processes are described in more detail in the following sections and include examples and templates.

Work-life Balance Guide

• Step 1 - Get management support and the right people on board
• Step 2 - Find out about what's happening now, and what the issues are for your organisation and your workforce
• Step 3: Identify the possible solutions
• Step 4: Implement the strategy
• Step 5: Measuring and maintaining progress

Survey Tool

• Introduction
• Conducting a work-life balance survey
• A model work-life balance survey
• Processing and analysing the data

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