Organisations have made some progress in providing work/life balance over the past decade, but leaders and managers - not employees - are the ones who have benefited, new research shows.

Leadership Management Australasia's book, A Decade of L.E.A.D., which collates 10 years of findings from its leadership, employment and direction surveys (involving some 28,000 leaders, managers and employees), says that in 2000, the notion of striking a balance between work and personal life was only just forming.