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Flexible working – can the SME Sector cope?

Recently the UK government gave the green light to legislation that extends the rights for a greater number of employees to request flexible working hours. The objective is to allow employees a better work life balance and improve family cohesion. Noble sentiments you might say that the government hopes to take away the pressure of conflicting work and home commitments especially with a growing percentage of women in the workplace. But at what cost?

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The myth of work/life balance

Another day, another article or blog about the ever-elusive work/life balance.  The problem with work/life balance?  It doesn’t exist.  It’s a black and white term that doesn’t acknowledge the grey of life and serves only as eternal fodder for the media and puts continual pressure on people trying desperately to achieve it.

Think about what the term ‘balance’ means to you.  Are you picturing a pair of scales with equal amounts in each dish?  The definition of balance in Dictionary.com is ‘a state of equilibrium or equipoise’.  Is this what you’re trying to achieve in your life?

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A Flexible Workplace is a Happier, Healthier Workplace

Annie Toro is the Associate Executive Director for Public Interest Government Relations, American Psychological Association. This blog originally appeared on The Huffington Post.

Years of psychological research provide a strong foundation for flexible work arrangements, demonstrating the benefit to employees’ physical and mental health, as well as their family life. To promote this knowledge, the American Psychological Association created an Office on Work, Stress and Health that promotes research, training, practice and policy addressing these matters, including:

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