Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Creating Opportunities for a Better Balance: For those organizations that desire a leadership role on the issue of work-life balance, this series is intended to provide information, insights, benchmarks, and tools that will enable them to better manage the omnipresent work-life balance challenges faced by the majority of today’s associates and partners, men and women. Find out more from this Catalyst series on flexibility in Canadian law firms and apply it to your own situation.
Work-Life Industry: Thinking Outside the 9-to-5 Box: This article from Science addresses how industry and corporate employers are catering to today's work-life demands with flexible work hours, tuition reimbursement, on-site daycare centers and fitness centers, sabbaticals, and on-site courses. Contributor Sarah Webb found that companies increasingly use these policies both as a recruiting tool and to keep their workforce energized and committed.
Managing Work-Life Balance International: This Australia-based firm offers consulting services on work-life balance to international organisations. Their philosophy is that work-life conflicts are a 'bottom line' business issue.
Work-Life Balance Centre, UK has a free guide, articles and a newsletter on work-life balance. It also features information on a Well-Being Diagnostic Toolkit developed by Roffey Park Institute. Work-Life Balance Centre conducts research on the position of work in, and its effects on, employee's lives and families, and provide tools for regaining workload control. This information-rich site also has lots of work-life links.
Employers for Work-Life Balance (EfWLB): At this site, you will find work-life case studies and resources for organisations, policymakers and individuals in the UK.
WorkLifeBalance.com runs web-based training for managers and staff on work-life balance, better leadership and stress management. They also have a free newsletter on work-life tips.
From FastCompany, a collection of searchable articles on work-life balance.
Catalyst began research on work/family issues in 1968. The non-profit organisation reports that since then, flexible work arrangements have evolved from limited, ad hoc options through a finite set of standard options (part-time, job sharing, telecommuting) to the current wide array of full-time and reduced-hour arrangments. Catalyst has developed expert knowledge about the problems and successes of employers and employees who use flexible work arrangments. Visit the Catalyst Bookstore and scroll down to the Work/Life section.
The Center for Working Families: This Center is devoted to research, training and the dissemination of information concerning modern, dual-career families and work-personal life integration. The site offers information about research projects, publications, events, conferences and related web resources. Well-known author and academic, Arlie Russell Hochschild, is co-director of the Center.
Flexibility: This site brings together research and opinion about innovations in employment practice, organizational development, technological change, and public policy through news, views, reviews, articles, links and other useful resources. This well-organized site makes it easy for visitors to access articles and papers in any one of the main subject categories that include types of flexible work, case studies, issues such as work-life balance and sustainability. A regular, free newsletter is available upon registration. Highly recommended.
Sloan Work and Family Researchers Electronic Network: This USA site, which is geared toward work-family researchers and sponsored by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, provides access to information and literature on work-family issues. Also offered are a literature database, discussion groups and a newsletter.
Work & Family Connection--A Worldwide Information Clearing House for Work-Life Professionals: This site offers plenty of news and information about work-life issues and practices, including a searchable forum to exchange information, announcements about national conferences, some landmark work-life studies, a report on model companies and links to other valuable work-life resources. Of particular interest may be its web-based Work-Life Training Course designed to help managers and supervisors learn how to create a more flexible supportive workplace.
