Go Home: The Business Case for Work-Life Balance | WIRED

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So it was a little disheartening to find in the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll that only 54 percent of those surveyed believe it’s possible to achieve career success in the U.S. while also contributing to family and community life. Likewise, a significant minority of respondents – 37 percent – said they’ve missed out on personal experiences because of pressure to work late or avoid vacation time. While serving as the CEO of Great Rated!, I’ve encountered hundreds of innovative companies that prove respect for employees’ lives outside work can actually enhance their performance. While another testing and deployment startup recently announced a minimum number of yearly vacation days for its dedicated employees who ignored the temptation of an earlier unlimited-time-off policy. The same study also concluded that employees can benefit from starting later, with research subjects getting an average of 20 extra minutes of sleep for every hour that the workday was delayed.

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