Work life concerns trump most content here at WorkLifeNation.com, but you can’t have those conversations without looking deeply into the rocky economic waters we’ve been floating in. We’re coming out of a recession (we hope). The conventional wisdom is that most people feel fortunate to be employed and don’t want to rock the boat. Sometimes…
In the cold of the winter, I took a work-life break at the beach. With my Mac Book Pro at arms length, I made the time to take some deep breaths and embody a few yoga poses. Just one episode in my daily quest for work-life balance toward reducing stress. I was writing on deadline…
I posted this work life article on Forbes this week but I wanted to share it with my readers. The Tango originated in the streets and bars of Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century. That era was marked by great political unrest in Argentina. It was a violent dance of work, life…
Be prepared to reveal all and hang onto your ego while surrendering to the advice of business strategist Carol Roth, author of The Entrepreneur Equation: Evaluating the Realites, Risks and Rewards of Having Your Own Business. Ms. Roth tells it like it is. You’re not going to get the pie-in-the-sky stary-eyed advice telling you to…
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.
How companies are addressing the work life issue of end-of-life concerns in the workplace. Pitney Bowes has made a good start down this controversial road.
In a tony Connecticut suburb, at the home of work life expert Chrysula Winegar of WLBConsultants.com, the mom of four wrangles with a kitchen full of her tiny tots all under the age of six years old. Enter, Judy Martin with a rolling camera from WorkLife Nation,
While catching up on my Twitter status (@judymartin8) 1am on Tuesday morning I ran across a dynamic video rant from social media titan Gary Vaynerchuck (@GaryVee) on the new chapter in his life which has gotten a new infusion of work life balance.
“Is ‘Balance’ Bunk?” that was the jist of a panel discussion I was invited to participate on at the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Conference which was run by the American Psychological Association.
