Toward Work-Life Integration: Transforming the Balancing Act into an Achievable Reality
Lynne Hudson
Executive Vice-President, International Programs
Plan Canada
Kate Kerr
Vice-President
Pigeon Branding + Design
Anne Day
Founder and President
Company of Women
Paula Knight
Vice-President, People, Strategy & Communications
Cancer Care Ontario
Virginie Hotte-Dupuis
Manager, External Relations & Philanthropy
L'Oréal Canada
- Perspectives on the elusive notion of balance: reinventing the ideal into something more readily attainable
- The advantages of understanding work and life as one
in the same as opposed to mutually exclusive categories
- Understanding work-life integration as a professional achievement as well as a personal one
- Special considerations impacting the sandwich generation: managing the challenges associated with having responsibility for children and aging parents
- Exploring accommodation in the workplace: what policies and procedures can organizations provide and what benefits can they accrue in doing so?
- Technology as friend or foe: does round-the-clock network access promote or preclude better work-life integration?