Flexible working can improve business competitiveness

Flexible working can improve business competitiveness

Employment practices designed to make life easier for people to achieve a better balance between their work and home lives can have a favourable impact on business results, according to a government study.

The study by the Department of Trade and Industry provides renewed evidence that work-life policies — everything from flexible hours and subsidised childcare to career breaks and term-time working — can help reduce absenteeism, boost productivity and increase employee commitment

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Title: Work-life Balance: The Business Case, Department of Trade and Industry.

Availability: Call the Department of Trade and Industry, tel: 0870 1502 500.

You can read the press release online — see what you think . . .

For more information about the DTI's work-life balance campaign visit . . .

www.dti.gov.uk/work-lifebalance

Posted 20 September 2001