Mind your head: Life-Work Balance Survey

This questionnaire aims to gather information about the meaning and settings of life-work balance at various institutions. The results of the survey will be discussed during the Short Course 2.6 Mind your head: Life-Work Balance – What does it mean?, at the next European Geoscience Union General Assembly. We invite people from all career stages and disciplines to fill in this survey and join us for this Short Course (Thursday 27th April 2023, 14:00 – 15:45 CET).

The Short Course and the survey are offered by the Life-Work-Balance Working Group of the European Geoscience Union.

How important is life-work balance for you? *

Irrelevant - I never think about it

Unimportant - I rarely think about it

Somewhat important - I sometimes think about it

Important - I often think about it

Very important - I always think about it

What made you start thinking about life-work balance? *

Are you happy with your current life-work balance situation? *

Not happy at all

Somewhat unhappy

Somewhat happy

Happy

Very happy

Is your employer/supervisor encouraging you to take care of your life-work balance? *

Yes

Tolerates it when I ask

Other

If actions to ensure life-work balance are in place at your workplace, what are these? *

If these actions are in place, how much have they helped or not helped you in achieving a life-work balance? *

Not helped at all

Helped somewhat

Helped quite a lot

Very helpful and made a positive difference

If you find that not enough is being done at your workplace to ensure that life-work balance is achieved and maintained, do you think that: *

There is lack of care by the employer/supervisor to acknowledge and address the issue

The employer/supervisor cares but expects that it is the responsibility of each individual to take care of their life-work balance

Actions taken have not been particularly helpful

Other

If you changed your institution (same or different country), did you perceive that every institution treated life-work balance with the same approach? *

Yes

More yes than no

More no than yes

I never changed institutions

If not, what are the main differences that you found? *

Is there anything else you want to share with us about your life-work balance approach? *

Mind your head: Life-Work Balance Survey

Mind your head: Life-Work Balance Survey

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