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.
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.
This weekend NPR aired my feature on All Things Considered which gave a taste of the job hunt in the social media landscape. You can click here to listen to Socializing on Line can Get you a Job. Can you nail a job by playing your cards right on-line?
In our 24/7 high-tech global marketplace, our work life scenario changes exponentially. 2008 is chuck full of illustrations mirroring that fact, the least of which was the election of our first African American president. President-elect Barack Obama ran on a platform of change and a promise to create or save, an estimated 3 million jobs – and he used social media tools to nail the top spot.
U-S jobless rates in November were up in 37 states as national unemployment rose to 6.7 percent. The labor department reported that more than a million jobs were lost in the last three months alone. That figure is not just a number, there are people behind those statistics, and psychological ramifications for those individuals. NPR recently interviewed Michigan psychology professor Richard Price in a feature on Day-to-Day entitled, This is Your Brain after Your Fired.
Traditional retirement seems passé these days. Especially to baby boomers still trying to shore up their nest egg. Still, a recent survey suggests a good majority of them might be choosing the work they do – more with their hearts – instead of their financial prowess. There’s a new class of boomers who are rewiring their work life in order to give back while making a buck. The survey was done by Boomer tracker, Civic Ventures and the MetLife Foundation.
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 remember very specific dialogue between my parents that took place at the end of every summer when I was a little girl. My dad would talk about counting down the years toward retirement. There was discussion of “the pension,” but I never fully understood the import of the arrival of “retirement day.” As a High School Administrator he had a very stable job – until labor issues forced an early retirement.
With the convergence of the Gen X, Gen Y and Baby boomer generations in the workplace, companies are taking a harder look at worklife flexibility. In the past, it might have been incorporated as more of a "perk," rather than a strategy. But that is changing. According to the Alliance for Work Life Progress, more…
