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Issues of work life balance (WLB) are often at the forefront of employment policies across Europe because of its benefits to companies and their employees. For example, WLB can help to:
* improve organisational output and productivity * reduce employee dissatisfaction and disengagement Despite the well recorded benefits the adoption of WLB practices across Europe is patchy and often confusing. This is largely because of a profusion of different legal, financial, social and cultural situations and also because smaller companies (SMEs) that predominate across Europe often fail to recognise the benefits (and potential pitfalls). The Eurobalance project intends to impact on this situation across Europe to raise awareness and training in successful implementation of WLB in different situations across Europe.
The project will draw on an information package developed by two of the project partners, under the auspices of a previous EU EQUAL project ('ASAPH'), specifically to encourage uptake of WLB in organisations across parts of the UK.
With the other transnational partners in the consortium Eurobalance will adapt the material to the circumstances of individual countries across Europe and will use it to create an education and learning environment that will encourage more effective uptake of WLB. A further innovation designed to ensure success is to use peer educators ('champions') to deliver information and mentoring to SMEs in partner countries using best practice methodologies. What is WLB? |
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.