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Welcome to our third story in our series on Work/Life Balance. We are telling the story of Flexible Work Options and Work/Life Balance happening around the country. We are calling the series "Hear Their Stories" and it will address Workplace Flexibility in large and small companies and across all sectors. We have some great companies involved in The Flex Pages and the Flex-Friendly Certification, and they are sharing their stories with us, so we want to share them with you.
Our third blog post is featuring gDiapers.com. We will be asking the same 5 questions week by week with the hope of sharing different perspectives on different companies and people. Today we are hearing from Jason Graham Nye, Co-...
08/08/2010 - 7:59pm
Welcome to our second story in our series on Work/Life Balance: Flex-Friendly is telling the story of Flexible Work Options and Work/Life Balance happening around the country. We are calling the series "Hear Their Stories" and it will address Workplace Flexibility in large and small companies and across all sectors. We have some great companies involved in Flex-Friendly and they are sharing their stories with us so we want to share them with you.
Our second blog post is featuring Arise Virtual Solutions. We will be asking the same 5 questions week by week with the hope of sharing different perspectives on different companies and people. Today we are hearing from Jared Fletcher, VP of Operations at Arise Virtual...
08/02/2010 - 10:34am
Flex-Friendly is telling the story of Flexible Work Options and Work/Life Balance happening around the country. We are launching today a series we are calling "Hear Their Stories" that will address Workplace Flexibility in large and small companies and across all sectors. We have some great companies involved in Flex-Friendly and they are sharing their stories with us so we want to share them with you. We are going to start our first blog speaking with Stroller Strides, LLC. We will be asking the same 5 questions week by week with the hope of sharing different perspectives on different companies and people. Our first discussion is with Stephanie Ramirez, National Marketing Director , Stroller Strides, LLC. Q: What kind of work...
07/26/2010 - 1:30pm
June 2, 2010
I had a thought provoking conversation today with Joe Laur of Greenopolis. We were talking about the BP oil debacle and the link between environmental catastrophes like the Gulf leak and our nation’s addiction to oil. Joe had an interesting post about this recently at the Greenopolis site called Petroleum Saved the Whales… Now what will save us from petroleum?
In our discussion, what struck me most was when Joe quoted Abraham Heschel, a Jewish philosopher and theologian who said, “Few are guilty, but all are responsible.” While there is finger pointing left and right at BP and many others in regard to direct culpability, and liability, Joe-- being the environmental...
06/02/2010 - 3:33pm
May 26, 2010
Doing Flex Math: 5 Ways Adding Flex Work Options Adds to the Business Bottom Line
What do real estate, unpronounceable volcanoes, soccer, Ivy League grads, Baby Boomers, and greenhouse gases have in common? All are Flex math variables; and opportunities for your business to save resources --while making your workers happier, healthier and more productive. Here are just five of the many ways Flex-Friendly businesses are seeing how adding flex work options adds up.
1. Real Estate: Honest Tea, a Flex-Friendly employer in Bethesda, has two-thirds of its workforce working from home and despite rapid growth, has not needed a larger office. Citi saved millions after...
05/12/2010 - 12:23am
FLEX MATTERS -A Story about Sharing Genes a Job and Watching the Bottom Line
May 7, 2010
A DECLARATION OF FLEXIBILITY AND THE BOTTOM LINE
Our featured employer this month is RSM McGladrey. This company is a flex super star! RSM McGladrey is a leading professional services firm offering accounting, tax, business consulting, wealth management and capital markets services to middle-market companies across the nation. So when you think accounting and wealth management you think that this organization is certainly a business that’s focused completely on the bottom line—after all that’s their area of expertise --watching the bottom line.
What’s...
05/07/2010 - 11:10am
May 1, 2010
IT'S OFFICIAL WORK'S CHANGED FOR GOOD: HISTORY IN THE MAKING
It seems fitting that today on May Day, a time when we think about laborers' and workers' rights, and the beginning of the 8 hour work week that American workers demanded in 1886, that we take note of an historic event that happened a month ago that you might have missed. The event, though symbolic, seems to be ushering in a new era where workers' rights and business success are not thought of in such us vs. them 19th century terms.
The event we're referring to was a first of its kind White House Forum on Flexibility that brought together business leaders, advocates, flex experts and government leaders to...
05/01/2010 - 3:30pm
April 26, 2010
FLEX MATTERS for Attracting and Retaining Employees
As the economy improves employee engagement is lower than it's been in quite some time. As employees are ready to move, it's important to remember that 72% say flexible work arrangements would cause them to choose one job over another. That's 7 out of every 10 employees!
In our own surveys we've found that nearly 8 out of 10 Flex-Friendly employees are also reporting that they are more likely to stay with their current employer and to go the extra mile for their employer based on their flex work arrangement. So why would an employer choose not to offer flex work to employees? A very good question...
04/26/2010 - 9:57am
FLEX MATTERS for the Planet...oh yes and for your people and your bottom line as well
April 24, 2010
For the inaugural outing on our blog we're reflecting on Earth Day this week, and we're wondering if businesses actually understand how much telecommuting truly helps the planet? And, oh by the way....ALSO has a profoundly positive impact as well on people and profits?
Eye-opening stats from telework expert Kate Lister can be found here at the Work Shifting site. Lister notes that if 40% or so of the US workers who could telecommute for a day did so that in one day we would eliminate so many greenhouse gases that it would be equivalent to "taking 77,000 cars off the road for...
04/23/2010 - 3:01pm
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