Family-friendly Work Practices: Differences Within and Between Workplaces

By Matthew Gray and Jacqueline Tudball

An analysis of the extent to which access to family-friendly work practices is determined by differential access within or between organisations.

It is found that the variation in access to a range of work practices is greater among employees working in the same workplace than the variation between workplaces. A number of employee characteristics are found to be related to the probability of accessing family-friendly work practices. There is no relationship between having dependent children and the likelihood of having access to family-friendly work practices.

(Journal of Industrial Relations. vol. 45, no. 3, September 2003)