EAPs adapt to address stress in workplace
Increasingly, companies large and small are offering employees access to a variety of resources they might need to handle personal problems.
Web site offers tips
Ilyse Shapiro, founder of the job search Web site MyPartTimePRO.com, offers five tips for putting together a "work/life balance" program.
Starting a Business In Retirement
StartupJournal takes a look at a handful of people and how they're starting over professionally in later life.
Is Overtime Pay Worth Being Away From Family?
CareerJournal.com Writer Terri Cullen's husband wonders whether overtime pay is worth more than his time away from home.
When You're Expected to Stay Late At the Expense of Your Home Life
CareerJournal.com outlines two strategies for coping with an unbearable number of hours in a work week and constant contact from the company on days off.
How to Ask for Flexibility When You Aren't a Mom
Allowing working mothers to have flexible schedules can create tension among single or married employees who don't have child-care responsibilities.
The new retirement: staying busy making money
More boomers are putting the golf clubs and big trips on hold and using their age and experience to launch successful small businesses.
How to Advance Your Career And Still Have a Personal Life
The Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com offers five tips for getting the most of your workday.
At work, worrying about the kids
BaltimoreSun.com reports on the results of a study which finds that flex-time and childcare programs offer an antidote for anxious parents.
'Dadpreneurs' Handle the House and the Firm
StartupJournal.com reports on the increasing number of fathers juggling the challenging dual roles of entrepreneur and primary caregiver to their children.
Telecommuters lack face time
The trend of companies offering flextime or telecommuting – employee perks that really don't cost anything – seems to be increasing.
Taking a Meeting With Batman Watching
A marketing communications consultant tells The Wall Street Journal how she and her husband, artist Dave Dorman, meet with clients in their Geneva, Ill., home.
So Much for 'Personal' Habits
In many states, it is legal to hire, fire or promote based on what a company finds out about you in your nonwork world.
Love your work
What happens when work becomes, well, just too much hard work? It means it's time to re-evaluate and get a bit of balance, says Jane Martin.
Work-life leader is firm on need for flexibility
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Director Kathleen Christensen doles out millions for research into trials of '3-2' families (3 jobs, 2 parents).
Lawsuits looming for companies blind to family responsibility issues
New research reveals that employers might want to review their formal and informal policies regarding employees who serve as caregivers or have family responsibilities.
When working at home doesn't work
BaltimoreSun.com reports that many workers prefer the structure and human interaction that marks the daily office routine.
Companies try to help workers sleep more
Employers are waking up to the fact that sleep deprivation among workers can have a bottom-line impact.
Tips on Tuning Out From the Workplace
When you accept an electronic device from your employer, you need to find out when you are expected to use it.
Sabbaticals Can Offer Dividends for Employers
Accenture is among an increasing number of employers offering company-backed nonprofit work to recruit and retain talent.
Home-work spillover flows two ways
An article on BostonWorks.com argues that the technology that can connect us 24/7 to the office also gives us a "hot line" to family, and that's a mixed blessing.
Business's new task: turning off
An article on BostonWorks.com argues that firms and workers must draw the line between work and home.
Working 31 hours a day
As originally reported in The Orlando Sentinel, while technology lets workers accomplish more in less time, it is also making them feel overwhelmed.
Telecommuting long distances works
A BaltimoreSun.com article explains why it pays to learn the ropes by working in the home office first.
Nice job! Now get outta town!
The "all work and no play" mind-set may be eroding as bosses use time off to lure and keep talent.
Best company perk? Employees' time off
Younger employees call companies that give more time off "best ever."
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Why some employers let prized workers go on sabbatical – and what it does for the bottom line.
Segue helps its employees balance life, work
How a software company makes happier employees.
Working Wounded: Losing Your Passion
What do you do when the work thrill is gone?
Get a Life!
With the gender gap in work/life balance closing, corporate America has to find new ways to be productive that don't involve working 24/7, according to FORTUNE.
Despite
Personal Losses, Many Remain on the Job
According to this USA Today article, many employees are
staying on the job despite personal losses resulting from Hurricane Katrina.
Mothers'
Lounges Becoming Common in the Workplace
Employers receiving more requests for facilities to accommodate nursing
mothers.
The
Ascent of Hours on the Job
Americans increasingly feel overwhelmed by their workload. A shift in priorities
might help.
Few
Regions Are Immune to the Need for Nurses
Despite hospitals’ challenges, there are some success stories of medical
facilities that have reduced turnover.
Extreme
Commuting
More workers are willing to travel three hours a day, but what is the long-term
cost?
Maternity
Reprieve
In the battle to keep good talent, companies are helping new moms balance
career, motherhood.
The
Family-First Generation
According to a recent Families and Work Institute study, young workers are
more likely to seek flexibility.
Lost
Time: Vacation Days Go Unused Despite More Liberal Time-Off Policies
As the year ends and last-minute vacation requests and sick calls surge,
the companies that have paid-time-off plans can congratulate themselves
for having gone to a more flexible and manageable system. But even the best
plans aren’t a remedy for another malady: American workers don’t
take all the vacation days they have coming
Working
9-to-5 No Longer
The workday is starting at an increasingly early hour as more employees
adopt non-traditional work schedules, a fast-growing trend that's transforming
the 9-to-5 workday.