Read Leader making a Difference - Chapter 12: Laszlo Bock.

As senior vice president of people operations at Google Inc., Laszlo Bock knows and understands people and work. You shouldnt be surprised that the comprehensive (and complicated) analysis that goes into Googles search efforts also characterizes its approach to managing its human resources. Bocks current pursuit is a long-term study of work (patterned after the long-running Framingham Heart Study that transformed what we know about heart disease). Bock says, I believe that the experience of work can beshould beso much better. He and his team hope to learn more about work-life balance, improving employee well-being, cultivating better leaders, doing a better job of engaging Googlers (the name for Google employees) long-term, and how happiness and work impact each other. Undoubtedly, there will be some interesting insights that result! (P.S. If youd like to work at Google and want to know more about getting hired, check out the references cited above! There are good tips in there!)

• In your opinion, what role could work-life balance play in the well-being of the employees of an organization? Should employees be expected to make work their number one priority?