Beside team communications, this blog features posts written by community members. If you have a Lift account you can also share your thoughts and ideas by clicking here. Here is a post from Jan Ondrus, a veteran Lifter who is now working in Paris and wants to pick up your brain.

Dear Lifters,
we need your help in order to diffuse a survey.

Some academic research colleagues and I are conducting a survey to assess the work-life balance (WLB) perceptions of distributed professionals in the IT sector. In today’s (globally) distributed work environment, assessing work-life balance (WLB) perceptions of employees is critical to ensuring the well-being, productivity, and commitment in the workplace. We hope that the survey will result in the identification of actionable items that will make a positive impact on the WLB of distributed professionals in the IT sector.

This survey, conducted by independent academic researchers, is designed to provide a diagnosis of the employees’ WLB (or lack of) along with relevant antecedents and consequences. Since this study is on work-life balance, some of the questions are about your “work” characteristics while others are about the “life” aspect.

We need respondents based in Europe working on distributed project ("offshored") in the IT sector (i.e., people in Europe with teams abroad). We have already collected data from India and USA. Now it is the turn for Europe.

Click here to fill the survey!

This survey has 4 sections and should take about 15-20 minutes to complete. I know it is long but we really need complete surveys. Otherwise, we cannot use them for our research. Please forward this link to any relevant person you might know. We need a fairly large number of respondents in order to be significant.

Thank you very much in advance, best regards.
Jan Ondrus
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Information Systems and Decision Sciences
ESSEC Business School, Paris - Singapore