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Blog Overview Blogger Profiles Event Calendar You can also visit our other sites: EmployeeWellness.ca WellnessFair.ca Workplace Wellness Info on NaturalHealthcare.ca	\| Share: \| more Employers offer concessions as workplace demands escalate: Survey Canadian employers offer perks to help workers attain work-life balance. A poll was recently conducted by human resources firm Hewitt Associates with 164 different organizations participating. Results showed that employers offer perks such as flexible work schedules, telecommuting, extra paid time off for personal reasons, education leave, and job sharing. Other options workplaces offer are compressed workweeks, sabbaticals, and paid time to do volunteer work. According to the poll employers find it difficult to provide flexibility. It is difficult for employers to satisfy workersâ€™ increasing needs for work-life balance. Some organizations stated that some of their operations required employees to be work during a specific time of the day and so flexibility is difficult to offer employees, especially when many employees were laid off during the economic recession. Eight-six percent of employers offer flexible work hours to all or some of their staff and 68% require employees to be at work for certain â€ścore hoursâ€ť. Flexibility is also becoming a bigger issue because of technology which demands more from employees. BlackBerrys make it difficult for people to separate their work from their home life. The poll also found that many employees worked more than 40 hours a week. Approximately one-third worked a â€śregular full-time work weekâ€ť of 35 to 40 hours; 45% worked 1 to 5 hours more than a typical work week; 23% worked an extra 5 to 10 hours, and 1% worked an extra 10 to 15 hours. The survey results show that there is a limited amount of flexibility for many Canadian employees. Of the participants in the survey 77% said they allow some workers to telecommute regularly but 90% said they only do so with specific employees rather than a universal policy. Every organization differs in terms of operation and it is based on this difference whether flexibility can be offered. 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