Motivate and retain your best staff
Employees who achieve a good work/life balance can offer great benefits to your company.
Look at what you can achieve as an employer and an employee.
Over the last 5 years we have seen a dramatic change in how people work.
There is much more of a 24/7 society and indeed one in five people take work home with them every day.
This has become increasingly easy to do with the advent of Blackberries, access to work computers at home and mobile phones.
Over 6 million of the UK working population work more than 45 hours a week.
These are amongst many factors that explain the increased interest being shown in the issue of work-life balance and addressing this area there are significant benefits to business.
| Benefits to the employer | Benefits to the employee |
| Increased productivity and competitiveness | Greater motivation, morale and commitment |
| Focused and loyal employee | Feeling of being valued and listened to |
| Reduced absenteeism | Healthier person |
| Greater talent wanting to join the company | Happier person |
Keeping your high-flyers can be heightened by listening to them, investing in them and realising that actually it's not necessarily the case of working longer but smarter and faster allowing more time for balance to occur.