Work-Life Harmony

Total Organizational Health (TOH) for UTC is strengthened when all employees are able to show up and engage in their work without serious distraction and concerns about what may be happening in other aspects or areas of their personal lives. This is only possible when employees are able to experience work-life harmony, where their personal blend of work and personal roles and demands feels like it can be managed. Such harmony is possible when employees to have some degree of autonomy and flexibility over their work-related responsibilities. This might include having some input over scheduling assignments, work location requirements, and project-related deadlines. This dimension of TOH is also supported when employees have access to adequate paid leave and the ability to manage or control boundaries they may set between aspects of their work and nonwork lives.

Here are a few TOH-related resources here at UTC that can help employees to achieve work-life harmony:

1. UTC understands that for employees to thrive and maintain harmony between their work and non-work responsibilities they need to have some level of flexibility and autonomy provided in their work environment. This is why UTC continues to offer its staff employees periods of flexible work scheduling throughout the year (managed by leadership within specific functional areas). Flexibility in work scheduling for faculty is managed in coordination with department leadership. 
2. For more than a third of UTC employees, dependent care is a critical work-life harmony need for dependent children and adults. UTC is continually working to create more robust opportunities to support employees that have caretaking responsibilities. This includes the resources available through UTC's Children's Center. 
3. UTC understands that unexpected life events including serious illnesses happen and that employees need support and flexibility to manage such events. In addition to discussion options with direct supervisors and colleagues, staff and 12-month faculty at UTC may benefit from the UTC Sick Leave Bank, which is a shared pool of donated accumulated leave hours that provides emergency sick leave flexibility to member employees who have suffered disability due to an unplanned personal illness, injury, or quarantine and who have exhausted their compensatory time and personal, sick, and annual leave balances.   
4. *Additional resources forthcoming