A new perspective on Work/life Culture is emerging. A new multi-faceted vision of how we work, live and thrive in our 24/7 world.
The working and living experience, separated for so long, have merged. We have become part of a Work/Life Nation.
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 [...]
The employers of the world are waking up, perhaps. October marks the fifth anniversary of National Work & Family Month. Judging by the blogesphere and the daily news stories and studies on worklife balance, there’s been an increasing marked interest in the issue. Data on employee engagement and its connection to workplace productivity and loyalty [...]
It’s Labor Day and of course I’m working – and you’re reading this which means you’re at the very least surfing. Here’s a missive to help you grab a bit of that work life balance we’re all talking about. If you’re taking a break from the workplace scene today and looking for some inspirational material [...]
Walking through an outdoor marketplace in a small upstate New York town called Margaretville yesterday, I was not looking for anything in particular. Among the antique vases, old fashioned coke bottles, and rusty lamps on the tables of about fifty booths, was an occasional old looking book which begged attention, if only to check the [...]
In the ancient agricultural harvesting practice known as winnowing, the wind was harnessed to blow away the chaff, thus leaving the grain behind for use. It made me think, how is it we distinguish the valuable from the valueless in a workday filled with multitasking? To me, it feels that in being precise in our [...]
