Workers Need Affordable Child Care
Many families with young children must choose among bad options: spending a significant portion of their income on child care or leaving the workforce altogether.
Work Life Balance
Pizza Does Not Motivate Employees More Than Cash
When you have a negative attitude toward workers saying they need a living wage, you kind of show the real motivation behind the pizza party.
How to Create an Employee-First Hybrid Office
The hybrid workplace is the workplace of today, tomorrow, and long into the future. It provides flexibility that employees love. Plus, it helps businesses simultaneously reduce their operating costs and boost productivity and efficiency. There’s a lot to like about the hybrid workplace. Yet how you build your hybrid office can have far-flung effects on …
How to Help Your Employees Become More Productive
Has your productivity been lagging? Are you struggling to find ways to inspire yourself to work harder for you? Are you inspired by your boss? Perhaps you are trying the wrong tactics. Instead of focusing on what your employer can do for you, why don’t you consider what you can do to improve your life …
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Are we thinking about work-life balance the wrong way?
It’s one of the great struggles of modern life: finding a precise, perfect balance between work and life. And, according to Amy Howe, our obsession with finding that elusive equilibrium is part of the problem.This interview was originally published by Politico on November 6, 2019. Reprinted with permission. “I don’t even love the term [‘work-life …
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Women Aren’t Leaving The Work Force To Have Kids, It’s Leaving Them
Common wisdom that women do not make it into upper management positions because they choose to have children and focus on their families is wrong, new research indicates. A survey conducted by the Harvard Business School has found that personal choices are not responsible for women’s struggle to find a work-life balance. The study showed …
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Six Tips for Women Entrepreneurs
More women than ever before are grabbing the reins and starting their own businesses. The number of women-owned small businesses is growing approximately twice as quickly as the national average for all start-ups. For entrepreneurs of all stripes — women and men included — the pre-start-up phase is typically characterized by a flood of questions …
How to Get Work-Life Balance
Workers are parents. Workers are caregivers for their elderly and disabled adult loved ones. And yes, workers get sick sometimes and have to stop working and take care of themselves. The question is when our workplaces are going to acknowledge these all-too-obvious facts and provide basic benefits that let working people handle their non-work lives …
