Not only do you arrive for work on time, but early. There's never a family crisis that requires leaving early, or not coming in to work at all. Stress levels never build up that interfere with your work productivity.
Perfection never exists either in the employer or the employee.
However, to help employees maintain a balance between their professional, personal and family lives and become better employers, many employers are finding that it pays to look at the balance issue. Consider what happened at First Tennessee National Corporation, a medium-sized regional bank. Bank officials looked at their company policies and discovered that balance wasn't just a woman's issue. First Tennessee decided to ditch some work rules and let employees coordinate their own schedules. They introduced programs to ease family distractions and sent their managers to intensive trainings.