Purpose – Describes the benefits that UK public‐relations and marketing‐communications company Chazbrooks Communications has gained from its commitment to work‐life balance. Design – Details the comments of managing director Mandy Brooks, a vocal proponent of flexible working for many...

Purpose – Describes how employees at UK solar‐energy company Solarcentury developed a more sustainable way of working, involving doing more with less stress. Design/methodology/approach – Explains the theory behind the Energy Project Europe's Firing on All Cylinders program, how it was...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of family support, co‐worker support, supervisor support, work‐life balance policies (WLBPs), work‐family culture and job characteristics, as the predictors of work‐to‐family (WFE) and family‐to‐work (FWE) enrichment. In...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to uncover the hidden gender consequences of three current trends in the workplace, the increase in knowledge work, information and communication technology (ICT) and work‐life balance policies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper synthesizes and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate relationships between workaholism and satisfaction outcomes with job, career and life overall among managerial and professional women and explore the moderating role of social support in these associations. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship of measures of work intensity and work hours on potential antecedents and work and well‐being consequences. Design/methodology/approach – Data are collected from 242 male and female managers and professionals working in a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to challenge the notion that culture change programmes will inevitably gain support from employees by exploring ways in which policy implementation is affected by and provokes shifts in organizational cultures. Design/methodology/approach – Case studies...

The UK has operated a lightly regulated approach to help employees balance their work and domestic obligations, an approach which employers have welcomed and which they and Government consider to be successful. On the basis of empirical studies this paper challenges these assumptions and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to systematically summarise and evaluate recent articles on modern homebased work (2000‐2009). In identifying the key recurrent themes and commonalities in the existing research, it brings order to the variety of contributions to provide future...

Purpose – In this paper the authors aim to consider the impact of regulatory changes on work‐life integration outcomes. Using the cases of France and the UK they seek to explore changes in objective and subjective measures of work‐family conflict. Design/methodology/approach – The...