May 2, 2006
Articles
Workplace Flexibility Called Key to Easing Workers' Elder Care Concerns
"Employees are more likely to ask for flexible work arrangements to care for children than for their aging parents, a group of workplace flexibility specialists told Capitol Hill staffers at a May 1 briefing.” The Briefing was sponsored by Workplace Flexibility 2010 and the New America Foundation.
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Objective: Replace Retirees
"The government will soon need recruits to help it ride out a coming wave of retirements. At the same time, it wants to hang on to its experienced hands for as long as possible. That was the message yesterday from Linda M. Springer , director of the Office of Personnel Management, as she announced the launch of a television advertising campaign to showcase important and interesting jobs in the civil service.”
Balancing Acts
"It's become an annual ritual: the knife-sharpening, chest-beating and navel-gazing occasioned by a new crop of books about work and motherhood. Past examples include Judith Warner's Perfect Madness , Cathi Hanauer's The Bitch in the House , Ann Hulbert's Raising America , Anne Roiphe's Fruitful , even Allison Pearson's novel I Don't Know How She Does It , -- and, of course, the seminal (ovular?) text of the genre, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique . As the list grows, the standards for inclusion should rise. Does an author have something new to say that makes her book a keeper? This year's entrants make their bids differently.”
Op-eds
Sagario: Corporate Initiative Juggling Can Hurt Business
"Bosses: Before you make yet another "revision" in the company's mission statement, ‘alter’ a department's goals, or ‘tweak’ a corporation's business strategy in the name of greater efficiency, take heed. Workbytes hears that constant changes could cause more harm than good to the business. A company that shifts work ‘initiatives’ (read: nonspecific mandates that no one can quite explain) the way Paris Hilton switches boyfriends could potentially spawn a distrustful work force, according to research by Washington University in St. Louis.” Mentions Ellen Galinsky.