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 through regular presentations, roundtable discussions and provision of information on this website. 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.

Work/Life Snapshot Survey

Our most recent short and sharp snapshot survey to help us all better understand current Australian work/life trends attracted 14 respondents. Our simple home-page surveys are informal and unscientific, and their purpose is only to provide insight to what people are saying about their companies and their workplaces.


In response to the question,

“What are your Work/Life Program / Wellbeing plans for 2008?”

this is what we were told.


1. Corporate wellness has been identified as an organisational issue in our workplace?
     True 92.8% (13/14)

2. The attention we pay to corporate wellness has increased over the past 12 months.
      True 85.7% (12/14)

3. Corporate wellness is perceived as being broader than only a physical health issues?
      True 100% (14/14)

4. Our corporate wellness initiative is associated with our work/life program?
      True 42.8 % (6/14)

5. Our corporate wellness initiative is associated with our OHS program?
      True 85.7% (12/14)

6. At our workplace corporate wellness is a stand alone initiative?
      True 50% (7/14)

7. We collect corporate wellness data to evaluate efforts and provide insight to senior management.
      True 71.4% (10/14)

8. We have sought expert assistance to help us deliver our corporate wellness initiative.
      True 57.1% (8/14)

9. The answers provided above relate to a business which operates in Victoria, Australia.
      True 92.8 % (13/14)

 

 

Signposts

Signposts is a project funded by a Better Work and Family Balance grant from Industrial Relations Victoria. The Signposts have been devised to assist decision-makers and practitioners develop effective work/life approaches which will serve organisations' differing business needs and the changing needs of the people in those businesses.

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Getting Started

Conduct an organisational self assessment...

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Think Strategically

Taking a strategic course and developing a business case...

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Getting Data

Employee needs assessment...

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Identifying Solutions

To suit the staff group and the business...

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The Possibilities

Flexible work options and negotiating flexible work...

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Making a Statement

Preparing a work/life policy...

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Getting Help

Training and development...

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Bright Ideas

Learning from the experience of others...

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Roundtables

The next roundtable event will take place on

Thursday 25 June 2009


Roundtable schedule for 2009

Wednesday 18 February
Wednesday 22 April
Thursday 25 June
Wednesday 12 August
Wednesday 7 October
Wednesday 25 November

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What's News

Work life balance:

rhetoric v reality

A recent study of 12 000 top end Australian managers has revealed that the key determinant of an effective work life balance is not a company’s policy in this area but the approach of its line managers.

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The US Families and Work Institute have just released a study "Times Are Changing: Gender and Generation at Work and at Home".

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An Australia Institute perspective on how paid parental leave will pay for itself and boost the economy

Seven years on from the introduction to Parliament of the first paid maternity leave legislation, Australia is still debating the merits of such a scheme and still in the embarrassing situation of being one of only two OECD countries not to offer this assistance.

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Mature Age Employment

An Australian Bureau of Statistics report states that 15 per cent of Australian workers aged 45 and over say they don't plan to retire.

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