The Families and Work Institute released their 2012 National Study of Employers. This study examines trends related to workplace flexibility, health care … Read more
Does It Matter That American Workers Get So Little “Official” Time Off?
You know this to be true: American workers are among the most productive in the world, even if the the growth in U.S. productivity slowed somewhat at the … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Like It or Not, Unpaid Internships Are Going, Going …
This week, a story in USA Today reconfirmed what a lot of us already know: unpaid internships, at least as we once knew them, are slowly going away. And as … Read more
Why Organizations Need to Focus on Performance-Driven Engagement
Editor’s Note: Gerry Ledford will be giving a longer speech on the topic at next week’s TLNT Transform conference in How Employee Engagement … Read more
Looking Back of 2011: For Many, a Year of Overwork – or Underwork
I’m pretty numb to the flood of year-in-review stories that the media love at this time of year, mainly because they’re largely shallow, … Read more
5 Assumptions About Work-Life Flexibility That Are Absolutely Wrong
Employers may not know as much about work-life flexibility as they think, according to a report from the Families and Work Institute and the Society for … Read more
Your Workers Think Using Work-Life Is A Career Killer (But How To Fix That)
Editor’s note: The TLNT Radio show is a weekly podcast where we talk to the top minds in talent management. New episodes are posted here at TLNT every … Read more
Survey: Employees Sometimes Get Penalized For Using Work-Life Programs
Think employee engagement is important? Believe that work-life issues and the flexible workplace matters? Well, then this latest global research from the … Read more
Utah’s 4-Day Work Week: A Smart Experiment That Deserved a Better Chance
I love the four-day work week. My wife works one for most of the year and it, in combination with my ability to work anywhere with a reasonable Internet … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: Work/Life Balance? How About a Family-Friendly Workplace?
Work/life balance? This popular phrase gets a lot of press, but I find it inaccurate at best. Now that technology allows many of us to work 24/7 from … Read more