Survey of Jeffco County Workers Finds...

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Survey shows county workers like flexibility
by: Karen Groves, YourHub.com
Article Contributed on: 4/13/2011 12:07:41 PM

Maintaining a flexible balance between work and home life is a major selling point to employees of Jefferson County, according to a new survey.

Most employees appear to like working for the county, but they want to lower employee contributions to retirement plans from 5 percent to 3 percent. At least 73 percent of employees agreed they would be willing to participate in wellness programs to improve their health and contain insurance costs.

The top three workplace factors were pay and benefits, flexibility to balance work and home life and the ability to have input into how a job is done.

It would be interesting to see how many of those 73% who said they'd participate in a wellness program to improve their health and insurance costs actually would participate - it's a great way to incentivize a healthy lifestyle!

The benefits of flexible work schedules has always been a huge deal to me too. Life in the lab lent itself well to that (although not so much to limiting the hours - there's always so much to do that it's easy to put in 80 hours/week!). But I appreciated that if the weather was getting bad I could leave early and make up the time another day. I think the key is that when your boss trusts you to get the work done, no matter how little or how long it takes you, it's a huge weight lifted - you are trusted and appreciated, and not feeling that way is the biggest reason for people leaving their jobs - my hubby (who is charge of HR at his company) likes to say that people don't leave jobs/companies, they leave managers/bosses.

What do y'all think?