O: Open Flexible Work
Posted August 31st, 2010 by Barbara Miller
In the mid-90′s the Ford Foundation sponsored cutting-edge research on work-life challenges. Fifteen years later, the outcomes of the three year project are more relevant than ever. Artemis Management Consultants spearheaded one of three projects supported by the Foundation. Barb Miller has written a workbook: ReInventing Work: Relinking Life and Livelihood to Benefit Business and [...]
Posted August 31st, 2010 by Carla Moquin
The Parenting in the Workplace Institute (PIWI) has a vision of a world in which interacting with babies is just part of a regular day at the office. For nearly 150 confirmed businesses and more than 1,600 babies, this world is already a vivid and enchanting reality. Will you help our Institute and MomsRising to [...]
Posted August 31st, 2010 by Gabriela Melano
Since 1996, I have been in business as an organizational and community development consultant. Even though it certainly has its challenges to be self-employed, I have never regretted it. Since then, I sleep better at night, I am much happier and creative at work, and I have enjoyed working on different projects, meeting different people, [...]
Posted August 31st, 2010 by Robert Fuller
The inefficiency of slavery is now obvious, but to George Washington it came as a revelation. While on a visit to Philadelphia, Washington noticed that free men there could do in “two or three days what would employ [his slaves] a month or more.” His explanation—that slaves had no chance “to establish a good name [...]
Posted August 31st, 2010 by Cali Yost
In 1995, I graduated from business school and began working for Families and Work Institute developing and implementing work+life strategies. I often joke that I’m probably the first, and last, student to walk the halls of Columbia Business School publicly professing the desire to become a work+life strategy consultant. But my previous experience as a [...]
Posted August 31st, 2010 by Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas
Have you been there? Frustrated that it’s nearly impossible to excel at work (and home!) because the structure of your workplace doesn’t fit your life? Too many of us are banging our heads against the wall these days. Despite the workplace crunch that many of us face, there’s good news. An increasing body of research [...]
Posted August 23rd, 2010 by Linda Tarr-Whelan
Recently I was asked a terrific question by an Australian (and soon to be an American) woman at a training for women bloggers thinking about running for office. BlogHer and the White House Project had put together a great program. I talked about my experience in international work as an Ambassador which gave me a [...]
Posted August 17th, 2010 by Joan Blades
I just got back from a Dr. Pepper plant in Texas where managers told me about people laughing at work a lot more since they began the transition to becoming a High Performance Work Place (HPWP). As a person who has been writing a book about work practices that are good for both business and [...]
Posted August 17th, 2010 by Jodie Levin-Epstein
REGISTER NOW FOR SEPTEMBER 9th (12:30- 1:30 ET) CLASP AUDIO CALL: “Profitable: A Flexible Workplace for ALL Workers.” Join a lively discussion with Joan Blades (co-founder of MomsRising.org and MoveOn.org) , Jody Heymann (founding director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill and the Project on Global Working Families at Harvard), and Joan Williams (founding [...]
Posted August 11th, 2010 by Katrina Alcorn
Under health care reform, all employers are required by law to accommodate the needs of breastfeeding employees. But ignorance about breastfeeding still prevails in the workplace. Here are the basics that every employer should know. Please send it to your boss, your HR director, and anyone who is in a position to support women breastfeeding when they return to work.
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