Creating flexible workplaces and work life balance
Flexible work practices are powerful strategic tool for employers
All employers need strategies to adapt to changing conditions, retain quality workers and attract new employees when the time is right. Flexible work practices that provide work life balance to employees can help in building a committed workforce.
Flexible work practices:
- provide employers with the freedom to adapt to changing conditions,
- increase productivity,
- improve staff morale and engagement, and
- set businesses apart as employers of choice
The long term economic forecasts for Western Australia indicate that low birth rates and an ageing population will see a return to a competitive labour market when economic conditions improve.
Flexible work practices can increase the workforce participation of women, the mature aged and other underutilised groups of employees, providing access to a pool of resources to those employers committed to developing contemporary and innovative ways of working.
This website provides information on:
- the business imperative for flexible work;
- implementing work life balance; and
- a series of fact sheets on the range of work life initiatives being used in many Western Australian organisations.