Work-Life Programs
Balancing Personal and Professional Lives
Employees increasingly seek to strike a balance between their personal and professional lives. By the same token, organizations understand that enhancing their employees’ quality of work-life can have a substantial, positive impact on the quality, diversity, and productivity of their workforce. Work-life programs continue to be a differentiator in recruiting and they contribute to an organizations' employee value proposition.
Work-life programs can help organizations deal with several workforce challenges, such as:
- Aging/Retiring Workforce — Organizations are finding that work flexibilities can help convince experienced employees to delay their retirement while efforts are made to transfer and retain their considerable “brain trust”
- Competition for Talent — Younger employees are attracted to jobs that can provide a work schedule that allows them to spend time with their families
- Need for a High-Performing Workforce — Studies show that employees with a high availability of flexible work arrangements have “high levels of loyalty and willingness to work harder than required to help their employers succeed”
A variety of government-wide and agency-specific work-life programs are already in place, such as telework, flexible work arrangements, compressed work schedules, part-time work, dependent care services, and transportation subsidies. However, determining the right work-life benefits that meet the needs of an evolving workforce and make fiscal sense can be a challenge.
Booz Allen's Services and Approach
Our experience, combined with the firm’s depth and breadth of expertise, translates into results for our clients. We help clients understand the complex nature of work-life programs and the importance of taking a systematic approach in their planning, implementation, and analysis. We help clients integrate disparate issues, such as budget, program management, policy, information technology, and organizational culture, to make the best design and management decisions and realize the potential benefits of their programs. To assist clients in the challenge of coordinating these diverse requirements, we assemble a multidisciplinary team of experts with the right skills and experience to fulfill the needs of each client.
Furthermore, Booz Allen has become the industry leader for studying government telework. We understand the challenges facing our clients who are working hard to make the most of telework and other work-life programs. Our experts can help clients identify and mitigate barriers to the success of their work-life programs and target their desired results. For example, with a coordinated, enterprise-wide telework strategy, an agency can take full advantage of the program’s ability to improve attendance, recruitment, retention, and business continuity, all while achieving a positive return on investment.
Booz Allen employs a variety of techniques to address each unique client situation, including:
- Needs Assessment/Amenities Studies
- Best Practices/Benchmarking
- Program Evaluation
- Technology Assessment
- Functional Space Requirements Analysis
- Policy Development
- Performance Management Training
- Climate Assessment
- Culture Change Interventions
- Workflow Analysis
- Business Case and Cost Analysis
- Seminars and Workshops
Representative Client Engagements
Booz Allen has helped numerous government clients maximize the success of work-life programs, including:
- General Services Administration, Office of Real Property
- Internal Revenue Service
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center
- Department of the Air Force, Hill Air Force Base
- Department of the Army, Child and Youth Services Assistance
- Office of the Scretary of Defense
This page was last updated 22 June 2009.
