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 […]
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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 Apply for a “Best Companies to Work For” List—And Why It’s Worth the Trouble
Each year you see them—shouting from business journals, websites, magazine covers… “Best Companies to Work For” lists are everywhere: there are local and regional lists, industry-based lists, company-size-based lists, lists devoted to non-profits, lists devoted to law firms, lists devoted to specific jobs and specific types of workers. Have you ever wondered how companies land […]
The 8 Work-and-Life Changes I’m Grateful for This Thanksgiving
With the approach of Thanksgiving, I got to thinking about some of the things I’m grateful for. Not in my personal life, but in the world of work and life for Americans, in general. While there is much work still to be done to ensure everyone has the opportunity both to earn a living wage […]
Ten Random Takeaways from a Leading Work-Life Event
Last week, Working Mother Media convened the 2014 Work-Life Congress in New York City. The annual conference celebrates organizations on the year’s “100 Best Companies” list, bringing in representatives of those organizations plus numerous other players in the work-life world. I love going to events like these: if they are well-planned, featuring interesting topics and […]
The Great Divide: What the Overworked and Underemployed Have in Common
One morning last week I joined a small gathering in a conference room at New York City’s Baruch College to listen to a line-up of speakers and panelists talk on the subject of “Families and Flexibility.” The event was sponsored by Scott Stringer, our NYC Comptroller, who has been promoting city-wide “right to request” legislation. […]
