August 4th, 2009 | by admin
Japan: The New Face Of Home Caregivers (Seniors News Chronicle)
Defying traditional roles, a remarkable number of men are becoming the main caregiver of aging families. They accounted for nearly 30 percent in 2007, up from 20 percent a decade ago, according to government data. And like Yamazaki, a small but increasing number of men in their 40s and 50s are quitting or changing jobs because they are unable to cope with the unpredictable demands of senior care.
Are We a Family Friendly Nation? (San Francisco Chronicle)
Here, the legislation, companies, and people dedicated to improving our days, plus a look at how far we still have to go, and how to get there together.
OPM Work/Life Effort May Have Broader Impact (Workforce Management)
Jack Welch And The Work-Life Balance (CNBC)
I think it’s the first part of that much-quoted sentence that raised hackles: “no such thing as work-life balance.” Taken alone, those words ring false in most companies today. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 enforces a certain work-life balance in U.S. companies – and some, including GE, have gone beyond FMLA to provide opportunities and benefits to workers (including execs) to embrace life.
Careers: Balancing more than the books (PR Week, UK)
In some ways, the UK PR industry is ahead of the curve. In the PRWeek Best Places to Work Survey 2009, 85 per cent of respondents said they offered staff the option of flexible working. However, in many cases ‘flexible working’ is limited to allowing staff to work from home for a morning if they are expecting a delivery. ‘It is fashionable to say we should all be able to flexi-work,’ says Sue Grant, founder of tech agency Grant Butler Coomber. ‘The realities are still being worked through at many agencies.’
It’s not work-life fears that hold back women (Times Higher Education, UK)
It is sometimes suggested that female academics do not go for the top jobs in higher education because of the price they would have to pay in terms of their work-life balance. However, research from Glasgow Caledonian University suggests that this theory is wide of the mark, and that women in academia are just as willing as their male counterparts to sacrifice more of their time to further their careers.
Long hours ‘irritate’ Aussie workers (The Age, Australia)
While men’s dissatisfaction has remained steady since the first survey in 2007, two thirds of women working full-time felt they were constantly pressed for time, up from 59 per cent in 2007.
Work-life balance worse for women (Sydney Morning Herald)
Among the small number of people who asked for changed hours, two-thirds had requests met in full. However, a silent majority – 80 per cent – bit their tongues, fearing jobs were unsuited to flexible arrangements.
Idea of the Day: Require Federal Contractors to Provide Work-Family Benefits (Center for American Progress)
In the interim, the government should follow the recent recommendation made by Workplace Flexibility 2010 to adopt a pilot project requiring federal contractors that have hourly workers working on federal contracts to provide at least two types of flexible, family-friendly work arrangements.
Overcoming the motherhood penalty (Examiner.com)
Six years later, this discovery was later confirmed in Getting a job: Is there a motherhood penalty?, where the authors say mothers are 79% less likely to be hired and 100% less likely to be promoted. They also found that mother are assumed to be less competent and committed than women without children (American Journal of Sociology, March 2007).
Flexible Schedules for Hourly Workers Becoming More Prevalent (Corporate Voices for Working Families)
A new study by WorldatWork and the Work Design Collaborative (WDC) indicates that the number of hourly workers in the U.S. using flexible scheduling benefits such as teleworking is larger than expected.
Look Before You Leap! Evaluate Your Work Life Balance & Career Goals Pre-Job Change… (Total Practice Management Assoc.)
We may be in a recession but attorneys and legal professionals are still changing firms, positions, and careers altogether. Which brings me to a topic that not many current job seekers take into consideration; their own work life balance goals.
Four Federal Government agencies launch a new work life balance pilot program (Examiner.com)
The Federal Government is continuously recognizing the importance of work life balance issues for Federal employees. Mr. John Berry, Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), announced that OPM, the Department of Interior, General Services Administration and the Federal Reserve will collaborate to improve the quality of work life for the employees that work at these agencies. The new pilot program will create a work-life campus for the more than 6,000 employees of these agencies.
Work-life balance; we’re doing it wrong (In a Strange Land, Australia)
The most recent survey shows that part time work is no magic solution to the work-life balance struggle..My own experience, having worked both official part time hours, and as a casual, is that the juggle gets no better. If I am working part time, then the amount I do at home and in the community simply increases, and my overall commitments don’t decrease.
Work and Family Balance for Men? (Equal Couples Blog)
If we want to make real progress in the workplace we can’t afford to let work/family issues be only a woman’s problem!
Work/Life Balance? Yea…Right. (Get Radical at Work and Life)
Employers will tout alternative work schedules, telecommuting, flex time, and additional benefits like wellness programs. But what does that have to with an employee’s real “balance” needs?…All these examples highlight the problem with work/life balance: One size doesn’t fit all.
Modern technology = longer hours (but only for the happy few) (Fredzimny’s CCCCC Blog)
Indeed 87% of respondants believed that an official office remote working strategy would be attractive to them as employees, with the modern workforce apparently regarding such flexibility as a major factor in attaining good work/life balance.
Employers still embrace work life flex while on the edge (Examiner.com)
But there was one surprising finding in the report said Galisky,”81% of employers are maintaining the flexibility that they offer, 13% are increasing it during the recession and only 6% have reduced flexibility.
Career Life Connection at ERE Expo Sept. 10-11, Hollywood, Florida
Career Life Connection will be in booth #205 at the ERE Expo. We will be talking about workplace flexibility and video taping interviews with companies and workers who flex.
Small Business Expo and Career Fair, May 21, Quincy, MA
Leanne Chase of Career Life Connection to speak on Social Networking: Linked In, Facebook and Twitter
Career Life Connection Founder featured on Workplace Flexibility teleseminar
Flexibility Isn’t All About Mommies: Why Flex is a Cross-Generational and Gender-Neutral Issue; summary of teleseminar discussion on Workplace Flex.
Advice Isn’t Always Good For You (MSNBC)
Leanne Chase, president of Career Life Connection, was excited about attending a SCORE meeting in Boston, but didn’t end up with much help. Despite that, she plans on attending again next week.
New Nanny Math (Forbes)
Leanne Chase, 40, mother of a 3-year-old and owner of a business, Career Life Connection,
Twitters Work-Life Balance Tips (BusinessWeek.com)
It takes many villages – 1 at home to help with family life, 1 at work to fill in as needed, 1 full of friends to keep you sane #worklife
Career Life Connection on You Tube
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