2015/09/01 by Carolina Barbosa, Jeremy W. Bray, William N. Dowd +5 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · Health Professions · #Work-Family Balance Challenges #Attachment and Relationship Dynamics #Workplace Health and Well-being
paper · doi:10.1097/jom.0000000000000520
openalex publication_date 2015/09/01 · openalex created_date 2016/07/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the return on investment (ROI) of a workplace initiative to reduce work-family conflict in a group-randomized 18-month field experiment in an information technology firm in the United States. METHODS: Intervention resources were micro-costed; benefits included medical costs, productivity (presenteeism), and turnover. Regression models were used to estimate the ROI, and cluster-robust bootstrap was used to calculate its confidence interval. RESULTS: For each participant, model-adjusted costs of the intervention were 690 and company savings were 1850 (2011 prices). The ROI was 1.68 (95% confidence interval, -8.85 to 9.47) and was robust in sensitivity analyses. CONCLUSION: The positive ROI indicates that employers' investment in an intervention to reduce work-family conflict can enhance their business. Although this was the first study to present a confidence interval for the ROI, results are comparable with the literature.