WorkLife Essentials
Central to WorkLife Essentials is the world’s first global Online Resource & Referral Tool found at www.worklifeessentials.com. This site provides employers and employees with 24-hour access to a personal and confidential resource with information on balancing work and life. It also provides links to related resources and sites, and features over 30 different country portals ideal for international employers and multicultural workplaces.
Features of the global Online Resource & Referral Tool include:
• Acculturated and translated country sites in the Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America ideal for multinational companies and multicultural workplaces
• Easy links to other country portals – a true global village
• Work-life orientation to help employees understand the concept of work-life effectiveness
• Resources on work-life issues such as parenting, child, school-age and elder care
• Convenient online reports for HR managers identifying level of usage, topics frequently accessed and other information
• SmaRT II Resources Tool to increase speed and efficiency of online searching
• Suggested readings on work-life and dependent care topics with links to relevant material
• Promotional calendar to highlight specific topics of the month
• Suggestion box to capture ideas for enhanced services
• Online survey to provide continuous quality improvement
• Continuously updated materials
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WorkLife Essentials® in Practice
Five years into their relationship, Rita and her partner Frederick decided it was the right time for them to start a family. Although Rita desperately wanted to become a mother she was concerned about how this would affect her career and what the best options were for her and Frederick regarding parental leave.
Unsure about who to talk to about these issues she logged onto the WorkLife Essentials Site and found a scenario in the SmaRT® resource tool that matched her own, leading her to articles on ‘Motherhood and Career’ and ‘Returning to Work After Parental Leave’.
These articles offered guidance on how to integrate motherhood and working life, as well as posing critical questions that helped Rita and Frederick to make decisions about parental leave. The website provided links to informative websites that enabled her to learn about her entitlements as a working mother, and also offered a list of recommended readings about becoming a parent.
“The WorkLife Essentials website offers basically all I currently need. The information on ‘Talking With Your Teenager’ and ‘Teenagers and Stress’ guides me on how to talk to my teenage son, and the ‘Caring for Me’ section is very helpful especially for someone like me who feels stressed recently. Well Done WorkLife Essentials!”