Enjoy Quality of Life—which focuses on work-life balance—is perhaps the one we are best known for. BambooHR has made the news for our strict adherence to a 40-hour work week, as well as the employee time-off stipend we like to call paid paid vacation. To us, work-life balance, or rather quality of life, is more than a nice perk or a recruiting buzz word—it is a core part of our culture.
The United States is currently ranked 30 out of 38 countries in work-life balance, and many organizations continue to push the idea that whoever works the longest hours wins the race. But overwhelming workloads and exhausting hours are a quick formula for employee burnout. When our founders, Ben Peterson and Ryan Sanders, started BambooHR, they wanted to create a workplace where employees felt encouraged to prioritize friends and family and leave work at work.
Even if employees leave the office at 5:00 PM each day, technology makes it so that they don’t necessarily have to disconnect from the workplace. Many employees continue checking email and working on projects even after they return home, which can wear on both the employee and their loved ones. In fact, even a vacation isn’t a guarantee that employees will take a break from work. A study from Glassdoor found that two in three Americans (66 percent) report that they work while on vacation.
Enjoy Quality of Life (as well as all the other values) is more than just a nice phrase on a poster in our office; it’s a value that drives our entire organization. Together, we have built a culture where taking time off and making relationships the priority are expected and encouraged behaviors. And we would encourage other organizations to jump on the bandwagon—just look at the difference it makes to employees and their loved ones.
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