Digg DiggIn my latest post on Forbes.com, The Solution to Work-Life Balance, I take a look at how workplace flex initiatives might help to combat time-famine. As a society we are starved for time. Truly the master over your time is you. It’s in what we say yes to, what we say so to –…
The Work-Life Conversation In a recent post at CorporateCulturePros.com the authors address the monumental task of convincing companies to embrace the family part of the work-life equation when designing workplace flex practices. The article spoke about the importance of addressing work-life concerns, and the consequences of not doing so. I think raising our collective voices…
Do you feel zapped of every time you open an e-mail? News gotcha down? How does your brain feel after a normal day of information overload and attention crash in an era of distraction? Seems our work life balance is colliding with the demands of the new economy. Being tethered to technology in a 24/7…
Welcome back to Sanctum Sundays where you’ll get a little nudge to create your own Work Life Bliss as you head into the workweek, whether you’re an entrepreneur or have a corporate career. I was inspired by Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter of CareerTrend.net who posted at 3PlusInternational last week. In her article, Marching Through Change, she talks…
Work-life balance is not just a women’s issue in the legal profession, it’s a bottom-line issue. Just ask Deborah Epstein Henry, author of Law & Reorder: Legal Industry Solutions for Restructure, Retention, Promotion & Work-Life Balance. In this weeks episode of Work Life Nation with Judy Martin you’ll hear how Henry launched her research, designed…
Leaving the corporate setting for a better work life balance and new career is not an unusual occurrence here in the United States, and I’m finding that such desire knows no global boundaries. Over the pond, Ali Davies of AliDavies.com
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 Families and Work Institute and the Sloan Center on Aging and Work define in their new join study: Working in Retirement: A 21st Century Phenomenon. The report found that 20% of U.S. workers over 50 years old have fully retired from a job and are now working.
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
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.
