Work-Life Supports That Truly Help Your Organization

Work-life support programs have long been known to lower turnover
and raise employee loyalty. But new research shows they also have a
positive effect on promoting diversity among managers at those
firms, an effect that’s even stronger than that of some popular
racial-equity programs. Alexandra Kalev chairs the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, and she explains
why having strong, thoughtful policies around flexibility, time
off, and dependent care pay off for companies. With Harvard
sociologist Frank Dobbin, Kalev wrote the HBR article “The
Surprising Benefits of Work/Life Support.”