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We've already established that health insurance is one of the top concerns of new hires negotiating a compensation package with an employer. As for those of us with part-time, contract, or full-time jobs that don't come with health coverage, we do our best to get on...
This summer, there was a lot of talk about employers switching to shorter workweeks (specifically, four 10-hour days each week) to save in-house energy costs and give employees some relief at the gas pump. I've heard some folks grumble that such schedule changes would be...
In talking to friends and neighbors this weekend, I began to detect a theme. Not being economists or psychics, none of us could have predicted how hard the stock market would tank this fall (and how much our retirement savings would dwindle) or just how...
I love that Seattle is the birthplace of Take Back Your Time, an initiative that aims to get Americans to work less and smell the roses a little more -- and employers and government policies to make doing so a bit more feasible. I love it so much...
What about taking a work call while out to dinner with a date? Or how about when you're back at home, in the bedroom, canoodling with said date? According to a new survey released by Nokia, which I found mentioned on TMCNet.com this week, 53 percent of Americans said they "have been interrupted by a...
In my previous post, I raised the question of whether the current recession would erode some of the work/life balance innovations we've seen in the workplace in the past decade. Since the year began, we've seen headlines about unusual workplace benefits ranging from "heartbreak leave" for lovelorn workers to treadmill...
Whether you took keen interest in -- or great offense at -- New York Times writer Lisa Belkin's 2003 piece "The Opt-Out Revolution," you can't deny the impact this six-year-old article has had on the nation's conversation about work/life balance. (For those who don't remember or never...
Last week, I wrote about how to avoid work at home scams. Why? Because I get a lot of email from people who've either been out of the workforce a while to raise their kids or have had it with commuting to an office every day and...
Staffcentrix, an East Coast training firm that specializes in telework and home-based careers, caught my attention today with a press release featuring this cautionary headline: "Work at Home Scam Ratio Rises 12% as Jobseekers Scramble for Home-Based Jobs" If anyone knows this, it's the good folks at Staffcentrix, who run...
Last month I wrote about some steps you can take if the worst happens and you lose your job. Along with "Palin," "election," "bailout," "foreclosure," and "401(k)," the word "layoff" seems to be on the tip of everyone's tongue these days. And while I can tell...
One of my favorite bloggers and career coaches, Curt Rosengren, is offering a free 90-minute workshop on Mercer Island tonight for anyone looking to give their career a shot in the arm and rekindle some of the magic they once felt for their work. As Rosengren...
This summer, I wrote a post called Is work/life balance dead, or is it just being redefined by technology? Many of you had a lot to say on the topic. But a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project makes me think that the...
I wanted to avoid writing about Sarah "How Does She Juggle It All?" Palin and what her candidacy might mean for working women. This isn't a political blog; it's a career blog. And entire oceans of ink have been spilled on Palin's work/family balancing act...
