Flexible working opportunities and enabling employees to maintain a healthy balance between work and home benefits everyone: EBPO, its employees and their families. At EBPO we know that it makes good business sense to provide flexible working opportunities and appropriate policies for our employees. It enables us to retain skilled employees, raise employee morale, and minimise absenteeism.

In a competitive market we recognise we must concentrate on the skills and talents each employee brings to EBPO, and, whilst we must ensure that service levels are maintained, there are few limitations on what is possible in terms of helping employees to work in a way which best supports them in balancing their work and home commitments.

EBPO has developed and implemented policies in the following areas to support its employees:

• EBPO funded EAP (Employee Assistance Programme)
  
• Family friendly Fridays
  
• Family friendly websites
  
• Flexible working
  
• Part-time employment
  
• Flexible annual leave entitlement
  
• Homeworking
  
• Career breaks (sabbaticals
  
• Leave of absence/Casual leave
  
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave arrangements
  
• Adoption leave
  
• Parental leave

Policies vary depending on the country of employment.