What makes a great workplace culture? I’ve been working in the “employer-of-choice” arena for several dozen years now. I’ve watched as what began as a focus on “work-family balance” morphed into the more inclusive “work-life integration.” I’ve seen the focus on inclusiveness continue to grow until the concept of diversity, equity and inclusion—DEI—had become central […]
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What Have the Working Mother 100 Best Companies Got That Your Company Doesn’t?
Working Mother’s annual 100 Best Companies list was released in late September. Companies on it range in size from just over 600 employees to 170,000 plus. Industries vary from advertising to law, healthcare to high tech and manufacturing. They are headquartered in every region of the United States. But they all have one thing in […]
The Trouble With
Parental Leave
Parental Leave
A few weeks ago, at Working Mother’s annual “WorkLife Congress,” I attended a breakout session that made me think of Adam Pertman. I’d had a conversation with the adoption reformer a few months ago about the status of employer supports for adoption—see my last post for some of what I learned. The breakout session I […]
A Totally Cool New Way to Look at Worker Health
Total Worker Health may be the coolest thing since Nutella. (Chocolate and hazelnut! Spreadable!) What, you ask, is Total Worker Health? It’s an initiative out of the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—aka, NIOSH. The goal is to convince employers to […]
Why Wasting Time Might Be Exactly
What Telecommuting Is All About
What Telecommuting Is All About
I don’t know if procrastination is the hot topic these days or if my self-employed, home-office lifestyle has triggered a high percentage of customized procrastination feeds, but it seems like everywhere I look I find an article about conquering it. God knows, I can use those articles. In fact, I click on them as a […]
How to Get on the Working Mother 100 Best Companies List: Ten Tips for a Better Application
The application for Working Mother’s annual “100 Best Companies” list is out—if your company wants to try for this list, you have until mid-March to answer the 500 questions, write your essay, and get your entry in. It’s a lot of work, but it’s for a big reward. As I wrote in my last post, […]
