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Need to deliver 'the best' in a competitive market
High percentage of female employees
Large workforce with a wide geographical
spread
Need to ensure everyone has
access to work-life balance
Need to improve ‘wired
working’ to facilitate flexible practices
Need to attract more disabled
and other under-represented workers
Need to attract and
retain high calibre employees
Need to develop a 24/7 culture
for customers
Macho long hours culture
mitigating against work-life balance
No history of work-life
balance policies
Need to improve outdated
systems in a small company
Large number of parents in
the workforce
Large number of working
mothers in the workforce
Need to evolve a long-term
strategy
Need to evolve a long-term
strategy
Need to help employees who
are involved in community work
Need to support employees
with eldercare responsibilities
High percentage of
women not returning after maternity leave
Need to retain business
agility in an increasingly competitive market
Need to develop a consistent
strategy across a large business
Need to encourage non-parents
to take up work-life policies
Need to develop policies
for non-parents
Need to challenge a
culture of presenteeism
Need to gain buy-in
from managers
Small business wondering
what the benefits are
Need to extend opening hours
and improve work-life balance
Need to manage heavy workload
whilst maintaining work-life balance
Taking the workforce with you
Finding out what the workforce
want
Improving customer service
Improving customer service
Need to develop a 24/7 culture
for customers
Need to extend opening hours
and improve work-life balance
Need to manage heavy workload
whilst maintaining work-life balance
Need to retain business
agility in an increasingly competitive market
Need to evolve a long-term
strategy
Retention
Retention
High percentage of
women not returning after maternity leave
Large number of parents in
the workforce
Large number of working
mothers in the workforce
Need to manage heavy workload
whilst maintaining work-life balance
Need to develop policies
for non-parents
Need to support employees
with eldercare responsibilities
Need to help employees who
are involved in community work
Need to ensure everyone has
access to work-life balance
Recruitment
Recruitment
Need to attract more disabled
and other under-represented workers
Need to attract and
retain high calibre employees
Challenges facing large businesses
Challenges facing large businesses
Need to develop a consistent
strategy across a large business
Large workforce with a wide
geographical spread
Challenging workplace culture
Challenging workplace culture
Macho long hours culture
mitigating against work-life balance
No history of work-life
balance policies
Finding out what the workforce
want
Taking the workforce with you
Need to challenge a
culture of presenteeism
Need to gain buy-in
from managers
Need to encourage non-parents
to take up work-life policies
Need to ensure everyone has
access to work-life balance
Need to improve ‘wired
working’ to facilitate flexible practices
Challenges facing small businesses
Challenges facing small businesses
Small business wondering
what the benefits are
Need to improve outdated
systems in a small company
Consulting the workforce
Consulting the workforce
Finding out what the workforce
want
Taking the workforce with you
Need to gain buy-in
from managers
Where to next?
External link - Working
in partnership with unions - the TUC website 'About Time', contains
information about a TUC project on work-life balance, which looks
at how unions and employers worked together to improve organisational
delivery and employees' work-life balance.
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