In an economy in which many companies are trimming salaries, cutting staff, and asking employees to share more of their health-care costs, employers look for any way to offer something good. Free dog-walking services and tea-time massages may be out, but low-cost ways of helping employees balance work and life a little better by saving time on mundane chores remain. "Many companies are keeping life/work strategies that were put into place while the economy was booming, because now at some companies there are fewer people doing more work," says Jon Van Cleve, a consultant at Hewitt Associates, a human-resources consulting firm.
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