%0 Journal Article %J Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine %D 2015 %T Return on Investment of a Work-Family Intervention: Evidence From the Work, Family, and Health Network %A Barbosa, C %A Bray, Jeremy W %A Dowd, W %A Mills, Michael J %A Moen, Phyllis %A Wipfli, Brad %A Olson, Ryan %A Kelly, Erin L %X

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the return on investment (ROI) of a workplace initiative to reduce work-family conflict in a group-randomized 18-month field experiment in an information technology firm in the United States.
METHODS: Intervention resources were micro-costed; benefits included medical costs, productivity (presenteeism), and turnover. Regression models were used to estimate the ROI, and cluster-robust bootstrap was used to calculate its confidence interval.
RESULTS: For each participant, model-adjusted costs of the intervention were $690 and company savings were $1850 (2011 prices). The ROI was 1.68 (95% confidence interval, -8.85 to 9.47) and was robust in sensitivity analyses.
CONCLUSION: The positive ROI indicates that employers' investment in an intervention to reduce work-family conflict can enhance their business. Although this was the first study to present a confidence interval for the ROI, results are comparable with the literature.

%B Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine %V 57 %P 943-51 %G eng %U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=26340282 %N 9