Five Day Weekends an Answer to Work Life Balance
Are the Friends of the Five Day Weekend carrying this work-life balance thing a bit too far? The stated goal of The Five Day Weekend
May 4, 2007
Have We Heard the Last About Outsourcing?
How would you feel about working two days a week and having the other five off? According to The Five Day Weekend Movement that’s exactly
May 4, 2007
Stay-At-Home Moms are, Not Surprisingly, Underpaid
clipped from news.yahoo.com NEW YORK (Reuters) – If the typical stay-at-home mother in the United States were paid for her work as a housekeeper,
May 3, 2007
Executives Rank Work-Life Considerations Over Money
In my April 12th post I talked about Tom Peters and a message he had for us: “Life-work balance is pretty much an illusion if
May 3, 2007
Loving What You Do
Lifehack has a post from The Ririan Project titled “10 Golden Lessons From Steve Jobs” and his lessons on being successful. Here’s one of my
May 2, 2007
First Life Balance Poll Results Are In
Here are the results from the first poll:
As the results are far from conclusive, what, if any, assumptions can be drawn from these results?
April 27, 2007
Federal Government Work-Life Balance
The Partnership for Public Service and American University’s Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation (ISPPI) have released the third edition of The Best Places to Work in The Federal Government 2007. Here’s the overview and the rankings.
It is interesting to note that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), that same government agency that held hearings on April 17th about work-family balance and job bias, ranked a disappointing 30th overall on the list, 11th in the subcategory of “Family Friendly Culture and Benefits”, and an unsatisfactory 27th in the class “Work/Life Balance.”
April 26, 2007
Work-Life Balance and Productivity
Rebel Dad drew my attention to a recent study conducted by researchers at three Ontario universities that found that people whose family commitments impact on their work life are given fewer career-advancing opportunities and have poorer relationships with their superiors.
Unfortunately, in making their assumptions, the authors have misused the term “work-family balance.”
April 26, 2007
Less Vacation Equals Less Balance
According to a Hudson Highland Group survey, many workers don’t make use of their established vacation times. The report found the following:
* 56% of employees do not use all of their vacation days (30% of those use less than 1/2 of their days).
* 20% of workers only plan on getting away for long weekends this year instead of taking a full vacation.
* 30% of employees called in sick when they were not actually ill to “play hooky.”
What accounts for this? In a word: FEAR.
April 26, 2007
Truth in Posting about Work-Life Balance
The gang over at Trulia Blog get a big thumbs up when it comes to Truth in Posting about their company, its culture, and job opportunities within their company.
Take this declaration for instance, from the “Benefits” section of their “Trulia is Hiring” post:
“We’re big on balance, so we offer a really competitive and comprehensive benefit package – full health coverage… options… European style vacation packages (well…not really European, but better than most start ups)…and, of course, our BOFFI culture.
April 25, 2007
A Day to Balance Work and Family
Did you know that this Thursday, April 26th, is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day? Are you planning to participate?
According to the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day program was founded to create an opportunity for girls and boys to share and communicate their expectations for the future.
April 24, 2007
Workaholics vs. Prisoners of Success
Conde Nast, a self-described publisher of several “lifestyle” magazines that include Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Vogue, Wired, Bon Appetit, Architectural Digest, and GQ, recently launched a new business magazine titled Portfolio.
It doesn’t take long to get a feel for the magazine – we’re reminded immediately, and at every turn, that business is about wealth, power, and status, and that we’re expected to aspire to those things.
April 24, 2007
How Does Your Firm’s Work-Life Culture Compare?
Many companies today have recognized their employees’ needs to balance their personal and work lives.
Many employers have responded by creating initiatives that support this awareness by not only offering time off and leaves, as well as child care support and assistance, but making it known that utilizing this time will in no way jeopardize one’s standing at one’s firm.
April 23, 2007
Freelancing as a Way to Achieve Life Balance
Many people who have sought alternatives to the corporate world have pursued professions as freelancers. Working independently on a job-by-job basis does allow freedom and variety to choose one’s projects and hours, but it is not without its risks.
Chief among these hazards are the uncertainty of work (and income)and lack of company infrastructure and benefits.
Wired & Hired blog, a blog written by job recruiters, has two posts on this topic:
April 23, 2007
Work-Family Balance and Gender Lines
Courtney E. Martin has an interesting article over at The American Prospect titled “Fighting Apart for Time Together: Why is all the activism for work/life balance split along gender lines?”
Ms. Martin takes the very complicated issue of work-family balance activism and makes it understandable. Here is how the discussion shakes out:
April 18, 2007
How Important is Work-Life in Recruitment?
I spent a little time perusing several of the larger job boards recently and noticed that, no matter the job, there’s an increasing trend to offer a statement about the employer’s dedication to work-life and work-family support of its employees.
This statement sometimes comes in the job description, or is often included in the “about the company” section of the posting, but generally reads like this:
April 18, 2007
Virginia Tech – In Our Thoughts
My PDA phone cashed it in the other day and I had to purchase a new one. I’ve spent several hours over the past 3 days getting up to speed and ensuring that all my data has transfered to the new one. I also played around a bit, much to my wife’s amusement, importing some pictures so that when my wife and kids called, I’d see their smiling faces on my phone’s display.
My daughter is a bit finicky about her photos and didn’t like the one that I chose, so I went to her MySpace page to download one that she had posted, reasoning that she’d obviously given it the thumbs up, and here’s what I found instead:
April 17, 2007
Family Friendly Workplaces for Fathers
Fact: When we talk about “family friendly” companies, we’re usually thinking about working mothers, not working fathers.
Family friendly workplaces are usually characterized by discussions surrounding flexible hours, telecommuting, time off and leaves, child care support and assistance, and company culture – and company culture involves all of the aforementioned.
April 17, 2007
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