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Firms do more to aid work-life balance

June 9, 2008 on 2:38 pm | In polls, work-life balance | No Comments

Today’s SF Chronicle has an interesting article about some of the things companies are doing to retain good talent by fostering a better work-life balance for employees.

The main examples in the piece are two women who share a VP job at BEA Systems.  Job-sharing may not be that common (yet?), but similar perks offered by employers include flexible workdays and telecommuting.

My quibble with the article is that it explored few details of HOW these two women share such an important job. For example, they share an email account; how do they decide who replies?  How do they resolve disagreements between them about a management policy?  (I’m sure I’m not the only one with such questions.)

BTW, flex time was rated the “most important perk” by 53% of Yahoo! HotJobs visitors during a recent weekly poll.  The other choices were telecommuting (21%), tuition reimbursements (19%), and flexible spending accounts (7%).