Work Life Balance & PEP

Work Life Balance Hints & Tips

Here are some interesting hints & tips from our own consultants, gleaned from working with their thousands of people who have been pepped. If you find them useful suggest to your colleagues that they visit our site for themselves.

Work-life balance in the office

With the threats of the GLC receding – at least in this part of the world, competition for scarce talent is once again emerging. And one of the biggest factors in retaining talented employees is the ability to provide work life balance.

A MetLife Employee Benefits Trend Study published several years ago reported:

• More than half (56 per cent) of today's employees rate work-life balance as a key job selection criterion, with a roughly equal percentage of men (56 per cent) and women (58 per cent) saying it was critical factor for them.
• Among employees aged between 21 and 30, work-life balance has now become the single most important consideration when deciding whether to join or remain with an employer, even more important than the opportunity for financial growth and advancement or skill building and professional growth.

Many managers say this is easier said than done. They cite the growth of email traffic: more than 60% of managers report to us that they spend over 4 hours a day on emails. Another is the time spent in meetings. But perhaps the worst is the sheer volume of work which, apparently, just has to be done.

A recent study, by the Australia Institute, quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 27th October supports the Managers’ views. The study reported that “chronic overwork had become a creeping problem” and “one in four people are too busy to seek an appointment with a doctor.”

These comments suggest that achieving work life balance might be becoming more difficult to achieve.

Work Life Balance Articles

Here are some interesting articles on work life balance. Please feel free to download them and try them out.

• Personal Efficiency the Key to Work Life Balance (31Kb) - Tony D'Arcy, September 2011
• Hooked on Gadgets (658Kbs) - New York Times: June 2010
• Working Effectively From Wherever you are - 2008 (908Kb)
  Getting more of the Right work Done in Less time. Bary Sherman and Lynn Sherman PEP Productivity Solutions USA
• Handling the Reading Pile (18Kb)
  Once they have completed PEP most people are pretty good at handling their "must do" reading. However, their ongoing challenge is all the other reading (the "like to" reading) that slowly turns into that daunting pile on the bookshelf.
• Breaking the email compulsion (252Kb) - Suw Charman-Anderson, The Guardian, Thursday 28 August 2008
  The unpredictable way that useful emails arrive makes checking for them as addictive as slot machines. But you can regain control ...

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