Employers Offer Flex Work to Help Employees Maintain a Better Work Life Balance
Employers reveal their top hiring trends for 2010 - 43% plan to provide more flexible work arrangements.
Category Work-Life Quality
Details Employers revealed their top hiring trends for 2010 in the latest survey from CareerBuilder.ca.

Companies are optimistic about hiring in 2010 and are taking measures to ensure future growth. Companies plan to continue providing employees with greater flexibility in hopes of maintaining a better work-life balance. Forty-three per cent of employers say they plan to provide more flexible work arrangements in 2010, which include:
  • Alternate schedules - come in early and leave early or come in later and leave later - 72 per cent
  • Telecommuting options - 55 per cent
  • Compressed workweeks - work the same hours, but in fewer days - 41 per cent
  • Summer hours - 30 per cent
  • Job sharing - 25 per cent
  • Sabbaticals - 16 per cent
The survey, titled "2010 Canadian Hiring Forecast," was conducted by Harris Interactive among 255 hiring managers and human resource professionals in private sector companies.
Author CareerBuilder.ca
Publication Date February 10, 2010
Source www.newswire.ca
Format  Article , HTML
Availability Tabulated results/full report not available.