Corporate Social Responsibility

Indicators that you need to pay more attention to the well-being and work-life balance of your workforce and to your external reputation are:

• People at all levels typically work very long hours
• Staff surveys show that people don’t feel sufficiently valued
• Out-dated systems and processes leading to inefficiencies
• Old style leadership behaviours
• Employees habitually not taking their full holiday entitlement 
• Resistance to changes in working practices
• Low level of flexible working offered and/or low take-up of options
• Increasing levels of sickness and stress-related absence
• Women, black and minority ethnic staff conspicuous by their absence or scarcity in management roles
• Little interest or activity in community engagement and charitable support
• Few links with the local community
• Problems in recruiting good employees in a competitive market
• Low level of employee secondments.