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 –…
Workplace flexibility takes the concept of work-life balance from the perks of the gym to the spreadsheets of the boardroom bottom-line. In my experience, healthcare, education, the accounting industry and legal profession seem to be taking the lead on the idea. Albeit in bite sized pieces in most companies. But the legal profession takes the…
In the PricewaterhouseCoopers 2011 CEO survey, innovation and creativity came out as top profit drivers in an uncertain 24/7 global marketplace. But if C-Suite leaders want that kind of performance from their employees, they need to pay more attention to employee wellness. That means better understanding the concept of work-life balance or what I term,…
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…
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.
Cali Williams Yost’s post on Fast Company, Envisioning Work+Life Flexibility in 2020 got me thinking. She really hit the nail on the head by suggesting the lexicon move from workplace to work+life flexibility. In theory, as we evolve in the workplace, I envision the human element of the equation becoming even more prominent than “work for the sake of work”.
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.
Fem 2.0′s Wake up, This is the Reality radio and blog campaign stirred the pot around discussion of the “new normal” over the last two weeks. A shift is being called for to lay the foundation for better workplace guidelines, employee rights, more flexible working conditions, and sweeping work/life policy change.
In her first official campaign stop on Long Island, Senator Hillary Clinton addressed an audience of more than a thousand people speaking not only of “bringing the troops home” but also, ” universal health care and some childhood and family issues. Her visit this week coincided with the introduction of the Working Families Felxibility Act, which she along with other democratic colleagues, including Barak Obama, presented this week.
