5 Ways to Enhance Your Employees' Work-Life Balance

Case deadlines. Household chores. Childcare responsibilities. Doctor appointments. American workers are finding it more difficult than ever to juggle their work and personal lives, creating ongoing stress, job burnout and lower productivity. Savvy laboratory owners recognize that helping employees achieve a work-life balance can lead to decreased turnover and absenteeism and create a happier, focused and more engaged team. Here are five strategies they find most effective:

1. Non-Traditional Work Schedules
For some employees, working a traditional 9 to 5 schedule can be like trying to push a square peg into a round hole: it just doesn’t work.

Recognizing this challenge, Angela and Richard Dorsey, Co-Owners of Dorsey Dental Lab, Inc. in Rogers, AR, allow staff members to set their own hours and about half of the lab’s 18 employees take advantage of this perk. For instance, one C&B technician works a 4:30am to 1:30pm shift so she can be home...