We recognize that people have different priorities in their lives at different times. So we have a flexible approach that encourages you to strike the right balance between work and personal life.

With a serious commitment to flexibility in the workplace and the convenience of laptops, wireless phones, remote access to e-mail and a variety of other technological innovations, we can offer our people a flexible approach, giving them options for how and where they do their work.

Here are some of the work/life resources we offer:

• Maternity/paternity leave following the birth a child.
• Leave of absence: Accenture provides employees with an opportunity to take an unpaid absence to undertake activities outside of the working environment, which will assist with an employee's personal development and address balance of life issues.
• Paid time off. We offer a competitive program to give you time away for your personal priorities. Paid time off encompasses traditional vacation time along with paid personal time off and sick leave, providing flexibility for how, when and for what purpose time off is taken. The number of paid time off days is based on career level and workforce.
  
  

• A flextime schedule enables people to vary start and finish times around pre-determined "core hours.”
• A part-time arrangement enables an employee to work less than a standard full-time schedule per week by working fewer hours per day or fewer days per week.
• A job-sharing arrangement usually involves dividing the workload of a full-time position between two people (usually each working a part-time schedule).
• Telecommuting/home working enables an individual to work from a location other than an Accenture office or project site.
• Flybacks for people working away from their home location offers the option to fly someone to their project site or to fly to an alternate location in lieu of a trip home.
• Client-site flexible work arrangements help meet the needs of consulting people traveling to client sites. These arrangements may include full or extended weekends at home, or extended periods at the client location or home.