To put people at the center and skillfully connect different worlds (wok and Family) - these lofty words seem easy enough to put into practice. But the results of this year’s “Corporate Family Responsibility” report by the Humanites Foundation, Pracuj.pl and the IESE Business School paint a completely different picture. They show that 63% of Polish employees say that they work in environments which make it difficult to integrate family, social, and professional life, with 17% considering their work environments toxic.

John Naisbitt, a futurologist, emphasizes that the most exciting breakthroughs will not happen because of technology, but as a result of the popularization of the idea of putting the value of people first. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights was put in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s most translated document. There are 508 language versions of this document on the UN’s website. However, companies typically don’t look at human rights when they’re writing their diversity, equality and inclusion policies. They tend to refer mostly to labor laws.

Most employees think their workplace makes it harder for them to reconcile their roles. This is confirmed by the report of the Humanites foundation and IESE Business School. The report, on Corporate Family Responsibility, was conducted for the first time in Poland in 2018. The report shows not only the situation in Polish companies, but also Poland against the background of the summary results of research conducted for eight years (since 2010) in 20 other countries of the world.

The authors of the report compare pro-family solutions, management culture and their impact on the quality of human life, taking into account company policy, support of superiors and organizational culture, including actual expectations of employees (or, for example, do not feel informal pressure for overtime work).