What is the work/life association?
Work/Life Association is the premier, not for profit organisation in Australia dedicated to assisting the business community create and maximise options to help their workers harmonize work and life commitments.
Our primary objective is to promote learning about best practice approaches to managing work and life balance in the workplace. We do this through the provision of information on this website and regular events. Our events aim to:
- Provide new and innovative perspectives on contemporary work and life balance issues
- Promote flexible ways to work as a means of improving business and individual performance
- Encourage employers to take a ‘whole of organisation’ approach when managing work and life balance issues
- Alert mangers to legislative change that will impact on how people must be managed
- Provide mangers with a range of resources to help them deliver effective work/life strategies
As academics and practitioners specializing in work/life balance we are in a unique position to offer participants new and innovative perspectives on managing work and life balance issues. In this way we are encouraging employers to adopt an approach to work/life management that balances both personal and business needs.
Working Families And Employers
The way2work website is part of the Victorian Government's commitment to help working families and employers. It has information to help parents and carers make the transition back into the paid workforce and to help employers create family friendly workplaces to attract and retain quality staff. Please visit ways2work.business.vic.gov.au
Reality Check Work Life Balance
Australian women are working more now than ever before. Over the noughties, total fertility rates increased also, back to 2.0 children per woman from 1.7 in 2001. Women do around twice the unpaid work and care compared to men.
Since 2008, Women’s Forum Australia has undertaken extensive research – through a focus group, literature review and web-based survey with over 950 respondents – investigating the conflict between women’s work and life goals, impacts of conflict, and solutions for achieving better work life balance.
Women’s Forum Australia seeks to promote initiatives that support women’s freedom to make decisions about their personal work life balance, including decisions about their children’s care and whether or not to engage in paid work.
Download a copy of the research summary here
Reality Check Worklife Balance.pdf