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It's no secret that a number of middle managers are simply worker bees who did their job so well that they were promoted to a supervisory position, regardless of whether they had any inkling about how to manage and motivate others. As an homage to...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported yesterday that 26 percent of Americans age 16 or older volunteered for a non-profit organization in 2007. What's more, 36 percent of volunteers donated at least 100 hours of their time last year, the highest rate since 2002. (These stats courtesy...
It's been fascinating to read all the different opinions readers have about blending work with leisure time vs. keeping weekends, evenings, and vacations work-free. Keep 'em coming. Meantime, here's another tidbit to chew on: Last week, a new CareerBuilder.com survey found that 78 percent of...
Earlier this year, I was out walking my dog and got to talking to a neighbor who'd been undergoing chemo for breast cancer. She was doing well, but she of course needed the day off work once a week for her treatments, and sometimes the...
Not to belabor the "not opting out" conversation, but the day after I wrote about laying the so-called opt-out revolution to rest an interesting Congressional study was released: Contrary to once-popular belief, women have not been dropping out of the workforce in increasing numbers to raise kids or run...
So many articles and studies about women supposedly opting out, in, under, and around the workforce have crossed my desk in recent years that I've pretty much stopped paying attention. But this month, a study announced by the Haas School of Business at the University...
The Society for Human Resource Management put out its 60th annual Employee Benefits Survey last month. Along with the less-than-surprising revelation that U.S. employers are scaling back on health care and financial benefits was the heartening news that more and more organizations are adjusting their...
Penelope Trunk, who writes the blog Brazen Careerist, says work/life balance is an outmoded ideal. On BusinessWeek's Balance blog last month she wrote that using technology to blend work and life is far more realistic than trying to compartmentalize each. In many ways, I agree. Despite...
The hilarious and brilliant Barbara Ehrenreich will be speaking in Seattle this Thursday, July 17, at 7 p.m. to promote her new book, This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation. The event will take place in the Microsoft Auditorium at the...
You may have heard of Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson when BusinessWeek did a cover story late in 2006 on Best Buy's meeting-free, schedule-less workplace policies. Ressler and Thompson were the forward-thinking HR pros who spearheaded Best Buy's uber-flexible workplace experiment, the "Results-Only Work...
How do I love the folks at the Seattle-based non-profit Take Back Your Time? Let me count the ways. Not only do they lobby our politicians for paid sick leave, overtime limits, part-time workers' rights, paid parental leave, and making Election Day a holiday so...
[Photo courtesy of Biznik] Earlier this week, I mentioned Biznik, a social networking site for independent professionals (from coders to copywriters to chiropractors) that I'm hooked on. Well, on July 9 and 10 the good folks at Biznik will put on BizJam Seattle 08, their...
PayScale's Kristina Cowan wrote an excellent post on Monday about using LinkedIn to land a job. If you don't know what LinkedIn is or haven't the foggiest idea how to maximize your use of it, run -- don't walk -- to her post now. My favorite...
[Photo courtesy of Microsoft Corporation] I was happy to see that yesterday's ABC World News with Charles Gibson did a segment on organizations that have instituted a four-day workweek to help relieve their employees' skyrocketing commuting costs. In the piece, ABC cited a survey...
Is it such a big deal when a husband works for the company his wife owns and runs? With 10.4 million U.S. firms owned by women, this was bound to happen more than a handful of times. But what are the dynamics of a husband...
