Leaders fail to clarify their personal preferences for staying connected to work with technology, and don’t share their expectations of the responsiveness with their direct reports. This leads to misguided assumptions that can wreak havoc on work/life balance--and most leaders have no idea any of this is happening.READ»
Historically, if you wanted to work remotely to avoid a long commute but didn't want to work from home, you would have been out of luck. Not anymore. What if you had an alternative that gave you the ability to telework, but in a real office environment? Would that prompt more people to work remotely? READ»
Just as a butcher creates a turducken by wrapping chicken inside duck, inside turkey, organizations must link policy, process and strategy if they want to make flexibility real. Does your organization have all three layers of a flex strategy "turducken?" If not, what's missing? READ»
At the beginning of June, swine flu or H1N1 hit my daughters’ school in full force. Thankfully, everyone survived the outbreak, but what about next time? Experts predict that we haven’t seen the last of H1N1, or its more ...READ»
Over the past two weeks since we released the thought-provoking results of the 2009 Work+Life Fit Reality Check, I’ve been asked by a number of people what I think the findings mean. To me, the results confirm that it’s time, ...READ»
