Work-Life Balance

This powerful resource investigates how a positive work–life balance can help create engaged, productive employees, how imbalances in work–life balance create serious issues for workers, and identifies different ways to greatly improve one's work–life balance.

• Gives readers an in-depth look at the history of work, from prehistory to the present

• Offers practical, scientifically tested solutions to organizational problems such as burnout, absenteeism, and presenteeism

• Compares the work–life balance status of the United States with other countries around the world, including those in Europe and Asia

• Includes primary documents that emphasize the need for organizational flexibility to allow for creative, de-stressed workers and a satisfied managerial hierarchy