Provides advice and tools for improving workplace well-being. Aims to help managers improve their own well-being and the well-being of their staff. Covers topics such as work-life balance, time and workload management, the physical work environment, alternative office designs, and stress management.

Source: Canada School of Public Service

Examines the causes of increasing work-life conflict and the need for measures to promote work-life balance. Summarizes the changes in social and institutional conditions, changes in the workforce and new challenges for the workplace. Current approaches for employers and governments to address work-life conflict are discussed, including research and promotion.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

Offers a personal story on the importance of reviewing individual values and needs to create a better balance between work and family life.

Source: BC Council for Families (BCCF)

Outlines the benefits of family-supportive workplaces for employers and employees. Suggests how employers can create these environments. Helps employees identify causes of stress in their lives and offers tips to balance work and home.

Source: City of Ottawa

Discusses what workplaces can do to offer family-friendly practices to facilitate work-life balance. Looks at issues, solutions, challenges, myths and practical steps to take to create a family-friendly workplace.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

Ce rapport contient des recommandations visant à moderniser les normes du travail du Canada afin de mieux répondre aux besoins des travailleurs et des employeurs d’aujourd’hui.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

This report contains recommendations for modernizing Canada's labour standards to better meet the needs of today's workers and employers.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

Reports on family-friendly practices in small businesses across Canada. Identifies challenges in small companies and examines strategies that owners and managers can use to meet the needs of their employees and improve business outcomes.

Source: Centre for Families, Work and Well-being (CFWW)

Defines what is meant by 'flexible work'. Discusses the benefits of offering alternative arrangements or schedules from the traditional working day and week. Outlines issues that should be considered when designing a flexible work policy, and also presents examples of common arrangements, such as job sharing.

Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

Offers a series of information on workplace health issues including stress, work-life balance, violence in the workplace, substance abuse and bullying.

Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

Reviews different types of work-life balance initiatives developed by countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden and the United States. Includes recent survey data and references.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

Discusses how organizations can foster a corporate culture that supports work-life balance policies, programs and benefits.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

Offers news stories, annoucements, and interest stories on the work of the Centre and work-family issues.

Source: Centre for Families, Work and Well-being (CFWW)

Examine les facteurs associés à quatre formes de conflit entre le travail et la vie personnelle : la surcharge de rôles, l'interférence du travail dans la famille, l'interférence de la famille dans le travail et la pression sur le fournisseur de soins. Examine également l'incidence du sexe sur la prévision du conflit entre le travail et la vie personnelle.

Source: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

Provides results of a research study investigating the effectiveness of various approaches to balancing work-life conflict, either organizational interventions or individual coping mechanisms.

Source: Health Canada

Explores how work-life conflict affects Canada's health care system.

Source: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

Le RCS est un service d'information-santé bilingue et pancanadien. Offert par l'entremise d'Internet, il vise essentiellement à aider les Canadiennes et Canadiens à trouver l'information dont ils ont besoin pour rester en santé et prévenir la maladie. Comprend de l'information détaillée concernant 27 principaux groupes et sujets de santé.

Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)

Examines how work-life factors such as time in work, time in home chores, and child care responsibilities have changed over time in Canada. Includes background information on the topic of work-life balance, describes the 2001 survey sample, and outlines the research methodology used in the study.

Source: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

Outlines evidence supporting the business benefits of work environments that foster work-life balance. Discusses absenteeism, accountability, recruitment and retention, productivity, and organizational benefits. Provides tips on how to build a business case.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

Discusses the experience of retirement and transition from the workplace to help both workers and organizations. Includes personal stories, lessons learned, and discusses key ideas such as the aging workforce, work-life balance, and working environment.

Source: Canada School of Public Service

Presents findings from two national surveys, one of employers and the other of workers, on work-life balance and job stress. Discusses the implications of these issues for employers and points to actions they can take to improve the quality of work life.

Source: Longwoods Publishing

Compiles comments from Canadian workers on how they feel about the stress they're facing in their daily lives as they seek to balance work and family. Comments are drawn from those provided by participants in Health Canada's 2001 National Work-Life Conflict Study.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

Reports on research undertaken to identify the factors associated with four aspects of work-life conflict: role overload, work to family interference, family to work interference, and caregiver strain. Explores the impact of gender on the prediction of work-life conflict.

Source: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

Describes a program that works with Saskatchewan people, organizations, businesses, and communities to help develop, implement, and maintain work and family balance strategies. Includes news, events, recent research, publications, and examples of family friendly organizations.

Source: Saskatchewan Ministry of Advanced Education, Employment and Labour

Examines family-friendly provisions that facilitate work-life balance, as found in major Canadian collective agreements. Topics include organization of working time; maternity, parental and adoption provisions; other leave and vacations; child care; and, employee benefits.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

Offers information, resources and tools to help organizations design and implement supportive programs and policies facilitating work-life balance. Includes case studies, programs, policies, evaluation tools, and best practices.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)

Examines work-life balance trends in Canada. Based on data from two national surveys, the study looks at factors affecting work-life balance and the impact on individuals, organizations and society. Offers recommendations for employers, employees and families, unions, and government. Link requires PDF reader.

Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN)

Reports on Canadian work-life facts, statistics and trends on topics such as changes in Canadian families, labour force participation patterns, organizational and workplace change, work structure and work time, child care and eldercare, work-life issues for employees and employers, and labour legislation.

Source: Centre for Families, Work and Well-being (CFWW)

Profiles work-life conflict in Canada during 2001 and reviews changes during previous decade. Traces the impact of work-life conflict on Canadian organizations, families and employees, and notes the effects of gender, job type, sector of employment and dependent care status.

Source: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

Reviews practices of work-related child-care centres in Canada. Discusses major issues, advantages and disadvantages, and how organizations can be involved in developing and operating work-related child-care centres. Includes detailed profiles of 14 Canadian centres.

Source: Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)