I wanted to comment on this article by Eric Spitznagel when it came out December 10th, but I poked both my eyes out after reading it and had to get an eye transplant. The subtitle ‘As an alarming number of workers play hooky, corporations are clamping down — and calling in the detectives’ actually made [...]
Archive for the ‘Health and wellness’ Category
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 [...]
Cali & Jody on FutureWork Radio
Laura Goodrich, Innovator, Author, Expert Speaker, Radio/TV/Film Host, and Internationally Recognized Expert in Workplace Dynamics and Change hosts the radio show FutureWork, a part of Linked2Leadership Radio Network. FutureWork is a collaboration of the host, the guests and you, and the audience to create meaningful solutions to workforce challenges and opportunities. FutureWork will feature reoccurring [...]
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 [...]
No Thanks.
Hey, would you like to be free? No, thanks. Would you like to live the life you’ve always dreamed of? No, thanks. Would you like to be unshackled from the chains of the 8-5 workplace? Cubeland? An outdated industrial age model? From PRISON? No, thanks. How about some ice cream? Yes, please! We’re always surprised [...]
The Disconnect
When people who believe they have workplace flexibility and people who want workplace flexibility talk about availability, the conversation regularly centers on disconnecting. People who believe they have flexibility feel they can disconnect themselves from work when they choose. People who want flexibility want to have the control to disconnect themselves from work when they [...]
Rethinking Benefits in a Results-Only World
We had mixed feelings about the following blog post from the Wall Street Journal, which talks about the effect the economic downturn on benefits corporations give to its employees. On the one hand, we’re sad to see that companies are cutting 401(k) contributions and educational reimbursements. In a perfect world people could be paid enough [...]
Changing More Than the Workplace
We were pleased to see this mention in the Huffington Post from Morra Aarons-Mele as part of their coverage of the Workplace Flexibility Conference . She does a nice job linking how people are waking up to a new way of working to how people are waking up to what needs to change in how [...]
Modern Working Environment: Tools & Techniques for Virtual Managers
June 13, 12 p.m. CDT
