Organizations are encouraged to provide employees with flexible working opportunities through work-life balance strategies, and workers are increasingly attracted to organizations that offer such strategies. For employees, the opportunity to work and family life, workplace stress, and work overload. However, some senior managers are reluctant to fully support these initiatives due to the substantial costs involved, which escalate with staff numbers. Then again, the cost of implementing flexible working strategies can be compensated by a reduction in absenteeism and improvements in organizational commitment and employee motivation.

Question: Removing work-life balance strategies could result in an associated reduction in absenteeism.
Options:
A. true, B. false, C. uncertain
Answer: "B"