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Office of Work/Life Resources
1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 635
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-4100
Email: worklife@harvard.edu

Harvard Medical Center
Office of Work and Family

Phone: 617-432-1615
Email: Barbara_Wolf@hms.harvard.edu

Harvard School of Public Health
Phone: 617-432-7448
Email: Work/Life Liaison

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Work/Life Resources

Work/Life Resources @ Harvard

Harvard has long recognized the importance of having a healthy balance between work, personal life, and academic pursuits. Its commitment to quality of life has been recognized by national and local organizations such as Working Mother and Conceive magazines, the AARP, the Dave Thomas Foundation and the Boston Business Journal. Ensuring balance starts with offering exciting and meaningful career opportunities matched with opportunities to grow personally, spend time with friends and family, and explore life.

Harvard’s generous time-off policy – including lengthy paid vacations, sick time, holidays and paid time off for new parents, combined with a number of unpaid leave opportunities – is designed to help manage work and family responsibilities. For most professional and administrative employees (exceptions include faculty, individuals hired under a collective bargaining agreement, and several other categories) paid time off starts accruing the day you begin work.

Complementing these offerings, the Office of Work/Life Resources helps Harvard’s diverse population find solutions to the daily challenges of personal, work, and family life. The office provides information and referrals to assist with all kinds of life events and to help manage unexpected disruptions of work or study. For concerns ranging from workplace stress to caring for a young child or other family members, members of the Harvard community have access to a wide variety of resources to help them integrate their work and life responsibilities. This includes Harvard's Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which helps employees with mental-health problems, child care and elder care referrals, workplace stress and crises, legal and financial questions, and more.

The Committee on the Concerns of Women (CCW) and The Joint Committee on the Status of Women are campus-wide networking groups for women.