The business case for firm-level work-life balance policies: a review of the literature
Author: Philippa Yasbek
This paper reviews the international and New Zealand literature on the business case for adopting work-life balance policies.
The business case is assessed by weighing up the costs and benefits of introducing work-life balance policies and determining if the net impact is positive.
The literature identifies a number of benefits, including reduced absenteeism and stress, improved recruitment and retention rates, and greater employee satisfaction and productivity. It also identifies a number of direct and indirect costs.
There is clear evidence of strong business benefits in the case studies. However, these conclusions are context specific, and not necessarily generalisable. There is no “one size fits all” business case for work-life balance policies. Larger, econometric studies are less common than the case study work but they do find a correlation between productivity and the presence of work-life balance policies. Overall, the evidence of the business benefits of work-life balance policies is reasonably strong, and increasing.
The business case for firm-level work-life balance policies: a review of the literature is available as a PDF document.
The document is 215KB, and 25 pages.
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