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Corporate Work-Life Balance Initiatives: Use and Effectiveness

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Managers and professionals are uniquely placed to experience difficulties combining work responsibilities with non-work commitments, due to long hours of work and extensive use of communications technologies enabling work tasks to be performed at any time, anywhere. In response to a workforce increasingly concerned with maintaining a work-life balance, organisations now offer a range of initiatives designed to facilitate the integration of work and non-work domains.

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Beauregard, T.A. (2011). Corporate Work-Life Balance Initiatives: Use and Effectiveness. In: Kaiser, S., Ringlstetter, M., Eikhof, D., Pina e Cunha, M. (eds) Creating Balance?. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16199-5_11

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