“VP2”, another look at work/life balance at KMPG

Many companies have begun to focus strongly on boosting employees’ wellbeing as a means to maintaining staff loyalty.

Following a consultation involving 200 employees, the KPMG group's VP² charter has set the goal of achieving work/life balance for all its staff. Broken down into seven main areas, it breaks new ground by tackling a particularly widespread phenomenon in France: presenteeism.¹

Managers’ top priority is to “promote added value rather than hours on the job”.

They formally undertake to organise work in accordance with each employees’ requirements, to use tools efficiently and in a way that respects employees’ personal lives, and to plan meetings at times that are convenient for everyone.

This system — which is evaluated every two years — also provides for special follow-up for every woman on maternity leave.

In May 2018, the charter was incorporated into a comprehensive business agreement on quality of life at work, signed with staff representatives, which includes the right to disconnect, new forms of work and the prevention of psychosocial risks.


¹ According to a study carried out by Fellowes, French companies are the most affected in Europe.