Study on Work-Life-Balance (only in German)
A former colleague of mine just sent me the link to the results of a study on Work-Life-Balance and its effects on the economy. The study aims at showing the positive effects of work-life-balance on companies, employees and the society as shown in the following graphic:
Source: Prognos-Study 2006, p.7
It provides some thought-provoking results and also some very practical recommendations on what to do to retain employees with a detailed analysis of the supportive and hindering factors.
Why do I blog this in a blog on social software? Because I think that work-life-balance will become increasingly important, especially for the net generation … but not only for them as a current article in the German magazine Zeit "Der Fluch der Unterbrechung" (via Mandy Schiefner) shows where the author Jürgen von Rutenberg describes in very neat writing how often we get disrupted by telephone, e-mail and, I guess, also by social software. So, the philosophical question remains: Is progress curse or blessing?
