SURVEY: Work-Life Balance: According to Whom?

What firms offer may not be what staffers want.

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By Kristen Rampe
Talent Retention & Development

How is your firm doing in the work-life-balance arena? If you’re like half of our CPA firm partner respondents, you are a strong, frequent supporter of these initiatives.

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But do your staff see it differently? Preliminary data from our recent talent survey shows that only 28 percent of non-partner respondents shared the same sentiment of “mostly or always” when asked if “management supports a healthy work-life balance.”

Posted on October 19, 2016

Kristen Rampe

About the Author

Kristen Rampe, CPA is the founder of Rampe Consulting. She works with CPA firms and practitioners across North America in the areas of practice management, leadership development, and partner advisory.

She is co-author of The Role of the Managing Partner.

Kristen started her career in public accounting and spent ten years helping companies report their financial results and comply with regulations. In 2011, she switched tracks to serve the CPA industry as a management consultant. She’s been awarded Woman to Watch by the California Society of CPAs/AICPA, 20 Under 40 by CPA Practice Advisor, and Ones to Watch (part of the Top 100 Most Influential list) by Accounting Today.

Today Kristen works with progressive CPA firm leaders and teams on projects such as partner compensation, partner agreements, individual coaching, workshops, and strategic retreat facilitation.

When not working with the accounting industry, you can find Kristen spending time with her family, enjoying the outdoors, or taking improv classes.

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