We know how important it is for our employees to strike a balance between their work and personal lives.

With the convenience of laptops, wireless phones, Internet access to e-mail and technological innovations, and Accenture’s serious commitment to flexibility in the workplace, we can offer our people a flexible approach — giving them options as to how and where they do their work.

Flexible working arrangements must be driven by a business need and are determined locally in each country to take into account local practice, culture and law. Currently, Accenture has flexible work arrangements–such as flex time, part-time, job sharing, telecommuting/home working–in more than 30 countries around the world.

Work/life balance is also an issue where significant professional travel is involved, which is often the case for many of our consulting people. Fly-backs and client-site flexible work arrangements help our professionals balance work and life when they are working away from their home location.

Accenture is striving to reduce the amount of travel required by our employees by rolling out a variety of video conferencing technologies such as Telepresence, a ‘like being there’ video conference solution, and RoundTable, a 360 degree visual conferencing tool, that help to connect face-to-face with remote teams in real-time.