Work/Life Balance

Our Focus

The Work/Life Balance Team is focused on making recommendations that empower staff to balance personal and professional commitments

Key Findings

Elements for healthy work-life balance currently exist within Office for Research

• 78% of responders agreed their supervisor was supportive of work-life balance.
• 80% felt coworkers rallied together to meet tight deadlines.
• Comments specifically mentioned that boundaries between work and life are present and working from home is a huge benefit.

In practice, work-life balance is inconsistent within Office for Research

• Only 67% of staff feel they have work-life balance, 62% believe stress is manageable.
• Taking work home and on vacation or delaying vacation due to work is not uncommon.
• Possible causes: understaffing, pressure from external stakeholders.
• Policies behind telecommuting and flexible working hours are poorly understood and not advertised.
• Diverse variety of offices with diverse roles and responsibilities make universal policies difficult to implement.

Realities surrounding cost cutting and lack of merit increases make providing additional work-life benefits essential

• Alternate rewards and benefits should be provided to keep an engaged and happy work force.
• Telecommuting and flexible working hours are not the only possible benefits to offer.

Work/Life Balance Team