This paper examines the influence of demographic and organisational factors on the ability of employees to balance work and personal life responsibilities. Specifically, the paper addresses if gender, childcare, eldercare and part time work impacts levels of perceived work/life balance of office based employees. A mixed method quantitative and qualitative approach was employed to investigate the research objectives. Survey data was collected from 710 employees in six divisions of a large Australian organisation followed by a series of semi-structured focus group interviews.
