Wetherly and Otter: The Business Environment
Chapter 08
When you have completed this chapter you will be able to:
Explain what is meant by ‘work–life balance’;
Identify developments in the business environment which are driving the work–life balance agenda and its increased prominence;
Describe the government’s response and its objectives;
Set out the major policies and practices developed by employers in order to permit their staff to better combine working with domestic life;
Examine the dimensions of the ‘pensions crisis’, and analyse it as a work–life balance issue.


