Can Accounting Firms Lead With Work-Life Vision?
And 5 practical ideas to implement measures to create real work-life balance at your firm.
By Hitendra Patil
Pransform Inc.
Do you want employees who have:
- greater engagement in their jobs
- higher levels of job satisfaction
- stronger intentions to remain with their employers
- less negative and stressful spillover from job to home
- less negative spillover from home to job
- better mental health
Aren’t these the things most accounting firms would want their employees to experience?
In a 2014 National Study of Employers conducted under the “When Work Works” project, Families and Work Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management noted that employees in more effective and flexible workplaces are more likely than other employees to have such desirable traits mentioned above.
Do you and/or your employees work 12-14 hours a day or 50-60 hours a week, don’t exercise, always feel tired, sleep poorly, eat junk food more often (mostly at your desk) and find it difficult to meaningfully engage with your near and dear ones? READ MORE →
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