{"id":439,"date":"2006-11-14T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T20:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=439"},"modified":"2006-11-14T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T20:55:08","slug":"work-life-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/work-life-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-Life Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales &#038; Marketing Management has an quick-hitter of a story titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.managesmarter.com\/msg\/content_display\/management\/e3iTBeGNVX3RgPYKhwu%2FyTC7w%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">Motivational Forces in the Workplace<\/a>. I thought we could keep the motivational\/rewards riff going from this morning&#8217;s post, but this article is a quick rehash of a Monster.com study.<\/p>\n<p>The article is rather unremarkable except for this bullet point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Work-life balance matters more to women. Forty-one percent of women would refuse a job offer that provided no work hours flexibility. Only 26 percent of men would do the same. Still, <strong>once on the job, work-life issues flip-flop across gender lines<\/strong>. Forty percent of men say their current employer is not flexible enough regarding work-family balance, while only 28 percent of women felt the same way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that an interesting perception by both genders? Instantly, I suspected that the women were better at qualifying the job opportunity for a fit to their preferences. It stands to reason, if you place more value in work-life balance when considering an opportunity, chances are you will make a more informed decision.<\/p>\n<p>What would be interesting to know is how these percentages play amongst Generation Y. They place high value on work-life balance so I would expect the gender difference to be less pronounced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales &#038; Marketing Management has an quick-hitter of a story titled Motivational Forces in the Workplace. I thought we could keep the motivational\/rewards riff going from this morning&#8217;s post, but this article is a quick rehash of a Monster.com study. The article is rather unremarkable except for this bullet point: Work-life balance matters more to women. Forty-one percent of women would refuse a job offer that provided no work hours flexibility. Only 26 percent of men would do the same. Still, once on the job, work-life issues flip-flop across gender lines. Forty percent of men say their current employer is not flexible enough regarding work-family balance, while only 28 percent&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/work-life-perception\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-75","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->