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Work Life Balance Toolkit

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Work Life Balance & Work Related Stress - Employers Guide

This guide provides practical help to enable you to put together action plans, for the development of work-life balance policies and, to tackle work-related stress.

It takes you through the business case for work-life balance helping you to take a fresh look at your organisation. Showing you how to audit policies and procedures to plan a cost effective framework for your work-life balance strategy.

In addition case studies of Employers of Choice in Warwickshire demonstrate the positive impact flexible working and other employee benefits can have on your organisation.

Part 2 of the guide looks at the Health & Safety Executive’s Management Standards for work-related stress.

It takes you through an audit process to help you develop an action plan and stress policy and also demonstrates how appropriate work-life balance policies can help manage and sometimes prevent work-related stress.

Case studies included in this guide profile organisations in the West Midlands which have attended Warwickshire County Council’s HSE Stress Management Workshops and, as a result, have successfully implemented stress reduction mechanisms in the workplace.

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You can also order a physical copy from us at no charge for the Toolkit.

All you need to do is pay for the postage and packing as it is a heavy lever-arch folder. This is £6 per Toolkit. Alternatively you can visit us at our address in Warwick and collect them for free!

Please contact us should you wish for a physical Toolkit to be sent through to you, and for details of our address.

You can also download a selection of individual forms from the Toolkit. Please click on the links below:

Work-life Balance Checklist - Steps to Strategy. Before embarking on an action plan it could be useful to work through the following checklist. You are then ready to carry out a thorough company audit and to move on to the planning stage.

Framework for Work-life Balance - How are you doing? Use this checklist to identify gaps in your work-life balance strategy.

Financial Model to calculate staff turnover - The following method will enable you to roughly calculate the annual cost of staff turnover.

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