Progressive companies are now becoming increasingly aware of just how vital it is to promote, and nurture, a successful, healthy balance in both their employee's work and personal home time.

This is now seen as the lynchpin for encouraging staff loyalty and inspiring their commitment.

While being an invaluable benefit to your employee's, lifestyle management increases productivity and provides financial savings to your organisation.

Employee's are now working so hard that they no longer have time to juggle their work commitments, with the mundane and repetitive tasks that running a home requires - Instead, they are using office time. Between 10% and 20% of their working day is spent dealing with personal issues, such as shopping, booking holidays and searching for trade's people.

Employers should take particular note, of the very real statistic which shows that in 2004, the average employee missed 13.5 working days to handle personal and family issues. This does not include absenteeism through sick days.

Workloads and stress in the workplace place a growing burden on employees. Employees now do the work of 1.3 people. Numerous studies have found stress to be costly in terms of lost productivity and increased health care costs.
Despite the outstanding progress by many leading companies, widespread acceptance of work:life strategies by employers remains in doubt. In many respects, the change process is just beginning. Implementing effective work:life strategies - is not only a socially responsible choice - it benefits the business bottom line! Work:life is an investment with three winners: the business, the employee and his or her family, and society.

Exactly what is work:life, and what does it mean in business terms? By work:life strategies, we mean initiatives by employers to attract the talented workforce needed to compete, to retain them, and to make them productive in the face of growing family and personal issues. Initiatives include programs, policies, practices, training and cultural changes that enable employees to balance responsibilities at work with obligations and opportunities in their personal lives.

The employee is a high leverage variable in business. Only by helping employees achieve a constructive balance between work and personal life can businesses compete successfully. Only by achieving a constructive balance can society provide the foundation for future business growth and achievement, a foundation that sustains effective parenting, education, and workforce development. A comprehensive work:life process strengthens business, families and society.

Careers @ Busy Lizzie
We are looking to fill the following positions in both our Galway and Dublin offices.
Please submit your CV and cover letter via email to hr@busylizzie.ie

Galway, Dublin, Wicklow and Mayo Medical Secretary
This role will be covering ongoing various assignments for GPs and consultants. You will have a proven track record as a medical secretary, with strong audio typing >60 WPM. Attention to detail, being able to prioritise your workload, medical accounts experience are also a pre-requisite. Good working knowledge of digital audio software, Word, Excel and email.

Galway and Dublin Social and Corporate Lifestyle Manager
This role will become live at the end of May. This role requires someone who is flexible, has their own transportation and broadband access, good geographical knowledge of Galway and local vicinity, good telephone manner and etiquette, excellent computer skills with knowledge of all the main Microsoft packages.