Work versus life? Changing attitudes towards work around the globe

Charlotte Cornish, Fabian Echegaray and David Donnelly

This paper examines what drives employee engagement and work-life happiness across the globe. Differences and similarities are explored between countries, and how this indicator of societal trends interacts with wider social values, macro economic conditions and corporate expectations.

Work versus life?: changing attitudes towards work around the globe

Charlotte CornishFDS International, United Kingdom

Fabián EchegarayMarket Analysis, Brazil

David DonnellyInstinct and Reason, Australia

PREFACE

The aim of this paper is to examine what drives employee engagement and worklife happiness across the globe. What differences and similarities do we find between countries and how does this indicator of societal trends interact with wider social values, macro economic conditions and corporate expectations? Taking the findings we elaborate on how homogeneous or heterogeneous global corporate employee policies need to be to achieve success. The data source for this paper...

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