Work/Life Balance

Work/Life Balance
Submitted in partial fulfillment of
The requirement for ELFH-611
Fall Semester, 2004
Background
"Business is Better When Life is Good" was the tag line for the 2004 Work/Life Alliance Awards banquet I recently attended with a colleague, who was accepting an award for Anthem as a 2004 Work/Life Alliance Award Winner. Michael D. Shum, Director of Global Workforce Diversity Operations at IBM , was the keynote speaker at the luncheon. During his speech he claimed that substandard employee satisfaction results prompted IBM's $50 Million Global Work/Life fund, a five…