Help employees find good childcare

Workers need to be confident that their kids are well-cared-for. Reliable childcare – including backup or emergency care – also can reduce absenteeism.

I recommend: KLC Child Care and Management Consulting provides on-site and emergency childcare, holiday care, corporate discounts, and partnerships with existing child-care centers.

Promote health and wellness

Healthy workers create an effective workforce.

I recommend: Wellness Corporate Solutions offers health risk assessments, health fairs and screenings, seminars, wellness coaching, consulting and services that can help employees maintain healthy habits.

Offer telecommuting or flexible schedules

When employees can skip the commute and work from home some of the time – or alter schedules to meet childcare or other needs – they'll save money and be better able to attend to family and personal matters.

I recommend: Career/Life Alliance Services offers a software tool for detailed planning of flexible schedules.

Find out how other companies are dealing with the work-life issue

Attend a seminar or conference to help you incorporate work-life initiatives in your own organization.

I recommend: The Alliance for Work-Life Progress offers members discounted registration to its conferences and courses and a wealth of information and resources.

Get help from a consultant

Helping your employees balance their lives and careers shouldn't mean a lot of extra work for you.

I recommend: LifeCare can help you manage employee benefits like assistance with child and adult care, financial and legal services, and more.

Use scheduling software that looks at the whole picture

Help employees manage work tasks and guard "off" time with a program that keeps track of it all.

I recommend: Llama Graphics' Life Balance software is a time and task coaching software that takes a user's unique goals and priorities into mind and helps them manage the many demands on their time and energy.