What Work Life Balance Practices Does BCFG Certification Look For?
Work Life Balance & Sustainability is one of the 8 standards BCFG certification evaluates. It’s the one standard that explicitly ties financial health to team wellbeing, rather than treating them as separate concerns.
What this standard evaluates
BCFG asks businesses to monitor costs and revenues and establish a foundation for growth and profit, while also supporting:
Self-care for team members and leadership
Creativity and space to think beyond day-to-day tasks
Sustainable business models that don’t rely on burnout to function
Why it matters
A business that’s financially unsustainable can’t support its team long term, no matter how good its intentions are. This standard is BCFG’s way of checking that “profit” and “people” aren’t working against each other but that the business plan actually supports the humans running it.
Where does BCFG fit?
This standard is where all three parts of BCFG’s Triple Bottom Line meet directly. People, planet, and profit have to work together here, not in separate silos.
Sustainable financial practices and healthy workloads aren’t state specific concerns. This standard applies the same way regardless of where your business is certified.
Ready to learn more?
See how Customer-Driven fits with BCFG’s other 7 standards on the certification standards overview, or move forward with certification. Members of the BCFG community can share how they’ve built customer surveys into regular practice.