Improving Work-Life Balance

Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry met with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, General Services Administration Acting Administrator Paul Prouty and officials from the Federal Reserve Board to discuss ways to create a model federal work-life program that improves the wellness, morale and productivity of federal employees, OPM said on Tuesday. Over the next few months, officials from the four agencies, which are in close proximity to one another in Northwest Washington, D.C., will work together to develop new work-life programs and policies for the 6,000 federal employees who comprise their campus. Some of the programs the officials plan to evaluate include their wellness programs, telework policies and the potential for sharing facilities.

The findings from the assessment will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and given to other agency officials to provide a model for needed changes and improvements to wellness and telework programs across government, OPM said.