Research and analysis

Family friendly working policies and practices � motivations, influences and impacts for employers

A literature review into what leads employers to offer and promote family-friendly workplace policies, and which interventions are likely to be successful.

From:
Government Equalities Office
Published
22 October 2019

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This review responds to the following research questions:

  • What factors influence employers to offer employee benefits, in particular family-friendly policies?
  • What evidence exists that family-friendly policies benefit or disadvantage employers (actual or perceived)?
  • What policy interventions have been demonstrated to be successful (or could potentially be successful) in encouraging employers to offer family-friendly policies?

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Published 22 October 2019

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