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Archive for the ‘Balance’ Category
Why We Don’t Need More Paid Time Off at Work
The alarm clock reads 3:30 am. You hear coughing and then crying in the other room. You get out the thermometer and sure enough, your daughter has a fever. You panic because you have NO SICK DAYS left at work. It’s a familiar scenario to many of us. Maybe you can take a personal day or [...]
Stop Using The F Word
ROWE is not flexibility. ROWE is not a flexible work arrangement. ROWE is not flex-time. The only “F word” that best describes ROWE is freedom. We understand people who have no control over how they work or are forever asking permission to live their life may see “flexibility” as a ray of hope. It’s not. [...]
How To Take A Vacation In A ROWE
If your company has migrated to a ROWE, then you already know how life-changing it can be. You now have control over your life, you are rewarded for productivity and efficiency, and you are treated like an adult. Life is good, right? As awesome as it is to work in a ROWE, no system is [...]
Turkey App Just in Time for Thanksgiving!
I was worried about the Holidays coming up and how we were all going to achieve work/life balance during the bustle of the next two months. Was someone going to drop work/life balance in our Christmas stockings? Or, maybe we’d win the lottery and wouldn’t have to work. That’s possible! But then I saw Tav [...]
Knit One, Hurl Two
I couldn’t have been more tickled pink to run across a blog on America’s Happiest Companies. What a profound notion that happy employees perform better. Yay, research! I’d like to give a big ‘Knit One, Hurl Two’ to the forward-thinking companies listed in this blog. They are so forward-thinking that they’ve come up with new [...]
Ice Cream Anyone?
If you’re feeling overworked, burned out, and overall disengaged, we have a solution for you to make your booboo all better. The Ice Cream Man! Remember when you were a kid and you could hear the Ice Cream truck coming? You’d run inside frantically looking for loose change – or if you were lucky, you’d [...]
Traditional Workplace Math
Dedicated Employee A: “I worked 62.5 hours last week!” Dedicated Employee B: “Oh yeah? I worked 75.” Dedicated Employee A: “Well, I had to give up my kid’s soccer game to finish my project on time. Dedicated Employee B: “I hear ya. My wedding was last week and the Best Man stood in for me.” [...]
The No Jive 5
NEWS FLASH! Not everyone gets ROWE, believes in ROWE, or even wants ROWE. TLNT recently featured “5 Good Reasons Why ROWE Hasn’t Quite Caught On Yet” by Lance Haun. Lance “loves the idea,” but does not believe ROWE is a “revolution.” Let’s take a gander at these 5 “good” reasons… 1) It doesn’t work everywhere [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
