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Experts project key shifts in work/life priorities.
Policies balancing work and life are essential but they're not what matter most in promoting a healthy balance. A recent study by the Boston College Center for Work & Family relegated policies and procedures to third place among expected priorities for work/life practitioners in the years ahead.
Executive director Dr. Brad Harrington keynoted this year's College and University Work/Family Association (CUWFA) conference in Chapel Hill NC in March by discussing the center's Work-Life Evolution Study. It explored how major organizations are responding to employees' needs, identified trends affecting the work/life field and projected its future directions.
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Searches using "the F word" (flexibility) helped them identify corporate work/life leaders. Job-sharing, phased employment, flextime and telecommuting are just a few forms of flexibility that help employees dovetail work and other aspects of their lives.
They surveyed academics, practitioners, not-for-profit leaders and founders of the work/life field about key themes and priorities. In summer 2006 they brought together 25 "thought leaders" for a "future search conference" to frame a shared vision. To get out of the box and look at the world five or ten years hence, first they had to identify the changes already in process.
Beyond childcare
Over the past 15 years the work/life field has evolved quickly. Once focused primarily on childcare needs, work/life has bled into all aspects of human resource policy: total rewards, diversity, cultural change, health and wellness, recruitment, talent management and more.
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