Category Archives: workplace flexibility

Boston Leads Work & Well-Being Update #Vlog 4/16/3013

Well-Being Update #Vlog for the third week of National Stress Awareness Month which I record weekly on Google Hangout.

How Work-Life Flexibility Made My Dad’s ICU Nurse Stellar

Work-Life Flexibility became the topic by default at 11:30pm on a Friday night with my dad’s CCICU nurse (Cardiac-Care Intensive Care Unit). My dad had open heart surgery in the afternoon and I was hovering over his bed. Knowing he’s strong as a bull, I warned the ICU nurse that upon REALLY awakening from anesthesia…

Critical Mass ushers in the flexible workforce

Talk of flexible workplace policies picked up speed this week when the Society for Human Resource Management partnered with the Families and Work Institute in a joint venture: Moving Work Forward.

The work life debate between public policy and business’ bottom-line

California and New Jersey are the only states that offer paid family leave. The results of a new study by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Center for Economic and Policy Research that examined California’s program suggests no “economic Armageddon” as Eve Tahmincioglu writes in her MSNBC.com column story, U.S. lags behind in offering family medical leave.

Committment to the shaky posture of work life balance as an entrepreneur

During my yoga class last night my mind was whirling about the delicate nature of striving for work life balance as an entrepreneur. One particularly difficult yoga pose requires

Workplace flexibility in suburbs reducing costs and helping working mothers

This week a client told me she was taking her decades old consulting firm located in the suburbs of New York, nearly virtual. Not just in the quest for workplace flexibility, but because it would reduce operating costs by more than half. There would soon only be a handful of employees working out of one office.