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Work-Life Unit has produced
a lot of materials and resources
to aid companies in their work-life
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The
Work-Life Unit adopts a three-pronged approach
to fostering
work-life friendly workplaces. You and your organisation
can benefit from the various initiatives and resources
provided by the Unit.
Promoting
work-life strategies
Work-life strategies include providing flexible work arrangements (eg. flexi-time,
regular part-time, compressed work week, telecommuting); leave benefits (eg.
marriage leave, paternity leave and family care leave); employee support schemes
(eg. workplace childcare centre, health and wellness programmes, social activities
for singles and concierge services); as well as having a favourable work-life
infrastructure (eg. conducting employee needs assessment, designating a team
to work on work-life issues.)
Organisations can adopt a cafeteria approach by providing a basketful of work-life
programmes and employees can select the programmes which best meet their needs
up to a certain cap value.
The Work-Life Unit co-organises the Family Friendly Firm Award to recognise organisations
that have successfully adopted work-life strategies.
The Unit has also organised over 120 sharing sessions/seminars for about 8,700
employers and human resource practitioners.
Currently, the Unit conducts bimonthly work-life sharing sessions, and participates
in networking sessions organised by various business organisations. It also partners
the Civil Service College to conduct training for local consultants and human
resource practitioners.
If your organisation is interested to take the first small step towards becoming
work-life friendly, it can sign up as a corporate Family Life Ambassador at no
cost to promote family life education programmes to staff. Similarly, if you
as an individual want to promote family life education to your friends/relatives,
you can also sign up as an individual Family Life Ambassador. Simply sign up
with the Family Education Department of MCDS. (For more details, visit www.aboutfamilylife.org.sg)
Building local expertise and resources
The Unit ran the Work-Life Consultancy Training Programme last year to train
19 local private-sector consultants to provide work-life consultancy. Interested
local companies can tap on the expertise of these consultants to implement effective
work-life strategies.
Research conducted by the Unit and other useful resource materials such as guidebooks
and pamphlets can be accessed from the MCDS website.
Facilitating funding for consultancy and training
The Unit also helps organisations to secure resources for implementing work-life
strategies. For example, the Unit administers financial assistance schemes for
both small and medium enterprises to help and encourage them to embark on the
work-life journey. Local organisations can obtain enhanced funding under the
Skills Development Fund (SDF) for staff to attend work-life strategy training. |
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| Managing
Your Work and Life: An Introduction
to Work-Life Harmony |
MCDS
presents a three-part programme:
The Work-Life Unit will give an introduction
to work-life harmony, IBM Singapore
will share the winning results of
adopting work-life strategies, and
a certified life coach will give
tips on how to attain personal work-life
effectiveness.
To find out more about work-life
harmony and relevant financial assistance
schemes, or to get updates on other
events, visit www.mcds.gov.sg, send
an email to work-life@mcds.gov.sg or call the Work-Life Unit at 6355
8032.
Date: Thursday, 31 July 2003 • Time:
7.00 pm to 8.30 pm • Venue:
library@orchard (snacks provided) |
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By
Work-Life Unit, MCDS
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