May 19, 2006
Articles
Taking Back the Weekend
"At a time when most employers are piling on more work, a small but growing number of companies, including Alcan, Cummins, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Texas Instruments and International Business Machines, are actually taking steps to reduce workloads. While corporate efforts to streamline work aren't new, the latest moves are different in two ways. They are driven by employee dissatisfaction, not budget-cutting. And they have two purposes -- not only increasing productivity, but improving work-life balance.” Mentions Brad Harrington.
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Events
Audio Conference--Workplace Flexibility: The State of Play on Workplace Practice and Public Policy
The Business and Professional Women’s Foundation (http://www.bpwfoundation.org/) invites you to participate in a series of calls and online discussions geared to support employers that are striving to create successful workplaces.
Title of Audio Conference: Workplace Flexibility: The State of Play on Workplace Practice and Public Policy
Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Time: 2 p.m. -3 p.m. (EDT)
Description: The call will cover the latest data on the business case for workplace flexibility, including highlights of best business practice, and the landscape of public policy.
Speakers: Donna Klein (Corporate Voices for Working Families); Sharon Masling & Katie Corrigan (Workplace Flexibility 2010).
To register for the event, please see the link below.
Audio Conference--Forgotten Families: An Interview with Author Dr. Jody Heymann
What do a Baltimore nurse, a Honduran sweatshop worker, and a Vietnamese shoe factory laborer have in common? If they are parents, they all have to balance the often impossible demands of earning a living with those of raising healthy, cared-for children. Dr. Jody Heymann created the Global Working Families to find out how families fare when parents work. Heymann’s research reveals the difficult truth that parents in Baltimore are more likely to leave their children home alone sick all day than parents in Vietnam, which has a progressive parental leave policy. In her latest book Forgotten Families, Heymann asserts that only by embracing solutions that are truly global can we improve the lives of working families everywhere.
Guest:
Dr. Jody Heymann, Founder Harvard-based Project on Global Working Families, Director, the Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University
To listen to a free archive of the event, click on the link below.