Give Your Organization a Work-Life Vision
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1 min readJan 22, 2016
More and more companies are acknowledging the importance of work-life balance, at least as far as official policy goes. The Families and Work Institute’s 2014 National Study of Employers finds that, compared to six years ago when it conducted the same survey, several numbers have moved in the right direction…
…Research shows that an organization’s work-life culture — all the unwritten yet well understood norms and expectations about how people are supposed to work, and what it means to be a good employee — has enormous power over behavior. Culture is what really defines how much latitude people have in terms of managing their work and non-work demands, whether or not there’s a flextime policy on the books.
