There are many documented studies of companies where the opposite is true. The following changes were suggested in the executive summary of Work in America's two-year study. Know your employees Determine who your employees are and what their biggest priorities are. You may discover not a consensus but rather a diverse list of employee priorities. Workers with young families want time flexibility and childcare resources.
Some baby boomers face the dual challenge of caring for children and parents.
Everyone may want flex-time to give back to their communities during traditional work hours. Merck begins work redesign processes with a confidential survey, and then follows up with a work group analyzing the results and creating and executing an action plan. Redesign work processes This idea builds upon the job redesign work of the '80s. Further, technological advancement may now permit a restructuring of the way work is done that was inconceivable five years ago. The study cites Kraft Foods' Sussex, Wisconsin, pizza plant.