The more workers use and appreciate family-related benefits, themore they tend to help co-workers and show initiative, according to aUniversity of Chicago study of Fel-Pro Inc. in Skokie.
The study found that work-family programs help muster employeesupport for organizational change. It also cemented previousfindings that family-friendly policies cut down on absenteeism andturnover and enhance worker performance.
The Fel-Pro study and a separate study measuring family benefitsat health care giant Johnson & Johnson were released Tuesday in NewYork by the Families and Work Institute, a nonprofit researchorganization.
Since 1990, Johnson & Johnson and Fel-Pro, a gasket maker, haveparticipated in independent evaluations of their work-familyprograms. Both have on-site child care, child and elder careresource and referral, family leave, flexible work schedules andother benefits. Fel-Pro is regularly singled out as one of thenation's most family-friendly workplaces. The U. of C. School ofSocial Service Administration and its Graduate School of Businessworked on the study.
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