Jeffrey Wands. We’ve been friends ever since. So when he asked me to contribute a chapter to his latest book published by Simon and Schuster’s Atria division, Knock and the Door Will Open: 6 Keys to Mastering the Art of Living
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,
Seems stress is a top instigator impacting health care costs for organizations. Not surprisingly, Buck Consultants, a division of Xerox, released that finding after a survey at the WorldatWork Total Rewards Conference.
The title speaks for itself. I was taken with the title because you don’t need a sledge hammer to drive home that message. Our WorkLife Nation is undergoing great transition as is the rest of the planet around the working and living experience.
In Careerbuilders latest survey, it wasn’t the fact that nearly 1 in 5 workers were looking to switch careers that sparked my interest even as we slowly recover from the job sector doldrums, but the reasons why.
This week, I stumbled upon what I’ll call a blueprint for a contemplative personal journey toward success, courtesy of marketing guru and blogger Seth Godin. His free e-book, What Matters Now includes wisdom from great thought leaders on positive changes and ideas toward making 2010 a year of success that matters, work that makes a difference in our changing times. What I prefer to call – “vocation.”
The traditional workplace model has entered into an evolutionary spiral. A workforce reinvention is taking place across generational boundaries, in fact across career trajectories for many people worldwide. Among the numerous reasons:
Our world changed in an instant on September 11th 2001. Our world perspective was suddenly viewed through a new expanded lens – courtesy the internet, globalization, international security and economic concerns. We also had a new take on our work life.
The study shows that the nation’s largest companies conducted layoffs at a rate of almost twice that of a group of companies recognized as great workplaces.
