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How One Company Reaffirmed Its Commitment To Make Flexibility Work

Recent high-profile decisions about working from home sparked corporate conversations all over America about how to handle workplace flexibility. Here’s how one company responded.

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3 Ways Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer Did Us A Huge Favor

Yahoo’s decision to nix remote working provides an opportunity to challenge the misguided, faulty reasoning many leaders follow when they decide to revoke support for flexible work.

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The End Of 9-5 Made Life More Complicated; Here’s How To Take Control Again

We can work remotely and multitask and have flex hours–but doing so means we have to coordinate, collaborate, and communicate in ways we didn’t have to 20 years ago. Here’s what that extra effort looks like in action.

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5 Insanely Simple Work-Life Balance Shortcuts From People Who “Have It All”

Some people manage to make work and other parts of their lives fit together with ease, while the rest of us struggle. These are their secrets.

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8 Steps To Make Telework And Flexible Hours Part Of Your Disaster-Response Plan

Weather extremes and other disasters have become a part of our “new normal.” When remote work or flexible hours are part of an organization’s disaster response plan, employees can stay connected to work and businesses can continue to operate at some level of capacity.

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Remote Worker Disaster Response Checklist

Tips on staying as connected as possible when disaster strikes.

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3 Reasons “Balance” Has Become A Dirty Word At Work

Millennials are less likely than older counterparts to say work-life fit is a priority at work, even as they are derided as lazy by older generations. Maybe if we all updated our language beyond “balance,” we’d all find better ways of working.

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How I Finally Went Cold Turkey From Working On Vacation

Twenty years ago, it took effort to stay connected with the office on vacation, but technology has decimated that barrier. Here are the three most effective tactics you can use to recreate that divide and get a true break.

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3 Ways To Break Out Of The “All Work” Or “No Work” Death Trap

The arguments around “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” (and work/life in general) make a critical error in thinking of work and life as binary. Our expert argues for integration, not absolutes.

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3 Signs Flexible Work Is Strategic–And Not Just Window Dressing

The question is no longer “What is telework and flexible hours?” The focus must now shift to “How do we use work flexibility strategically and deliberately to achieve our unique business and personal goals?”

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