Digg DiggEvery Monday Work Life Nation features a guest post from an expert on the work-life merge. Today we hear from Jennifer Sertl – a speaker, author and thought leader in the emerging field of corporate consciousness. She is the president of Agility3R ~ an organizational effectiveness company which focuses on executive leadership and employee…
The title speaks for itself. I was taken with the title because you don’t need a sledge hammer to drive home that message. Our WorkLife Nation is undergoing great transition as is the rest of the planet around the working and living experience.
It’s part of the Accenture Media Exchange – a program which encourages employees to put their creativity to work while addressing inside company issues.
The heartbreaking video of a psychiatric patient dying on the floor at a Brooklyn, New York hospital has echoed across the internet in the last 24 hours. The video shows the patient collapsing on the floor. As she collapses she is ignored. Hospital workers and security did nothing as she was lying there and eventually died.
It happened behind closed doors, but I suspect the juicy details of the settlement between writers and producers regarding BlackBerry use afterhours at ABC News, is the stuff of much gossip and concern in an industry where the “news” never sleeps. It should also be the concern of companies in just about any sector as we are living in a time of instant information and instant gratification.
The above quote from worklife expert Dana Friedman portends the significant impact of business as an agent of social change. But that change has not been swift with regard to work/life balance or family concerns in the corporate arena.
Honey bees are leaving the planet because their immune systems are suffering due to stressful working and commuting conditions. Sounds familiar? Take a look in the mirror. Just like those honey bees, the stress of commuting is now compounded by financial stress for us humans.
Wouldn’t it be great to know if your boss was hightailing it out of the office, if it wasn’t frowned upon, and in fact, was an openly acceptable behavior for all – on occasion? A recent study by Deloitte, suggests that kind of transparency might actually improve employee productivity and engagement.
I indulged in a nasty habit of mine yesterday. Deviating from my hard-nosed worklife business beat, I turned on something other than a screen with ticker tape running across the bottom of it. Yes, I dipped below the cable stations into the few single-digit network stations available, and came upon The View. Despite my short…
Environmentally Conscious @ Work
Today, Monday, October 15th, I’m participating in Blog Action Day along with about 16,000 other blog writers to raise awareness about environmental concerns. In the realm of worklife cultureand worklife balance, it’s a no-brainer. Big and small, businesses are realizing that taking interest in the topic not only benefits a company’s reputation, but also has a resounding impact within the workplace among employees. It can be a boost for employee engagement not to mention shareholder opinion.
It’s one thing for businesses to become more environmentally conscious, but that top down approach can only go so far unless we as individuals examine our own behavior whether in the workplace – or if we work from home. With my mind on Blog Action Day, I took a hard look at my behavior and eeekkksss, I have some stuff to work on. Here’ s a brief anecdote and ten tips to be more environmentally conscious @ work.
