Key features of a work–life balance program:
• Promotes a work environment that encourages employees to achieve
work–life balance
• Leave arrangements enable employees to have flexibility to handle family,
personal and community matters
• Recognises the impact of the needs of other family members and
dependents on work‒life balance
• Gives employees flexibility in their career choices and options
• Acknowledges interaction between work, family and life interests and
enables tensions around this to be discussed and managed
• Recognises that different employees will have different needs associated
with maintaining work–life balance