Category Archives: Workforce/Workplace

Don’t lose the family in the headlines about the State of the Union

By Ellen Galinsky | Published: January 27, 2010
Cross-posted from Huffington Post: In listening to the political commentators prepare for the State of the Union Address tonight, most of them are telling the President that he must reframe the discussion, have courage, and focus on jobs, jobs, jobs. I think that the President is doing something quite courageous that SADLY may be missed in the [...]
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Surgeon General “struggles” with her weight

By Morra | Published: January 11, 2010
The US Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin said this morning on Good Morning America, “I’m just like 67% of Americans- I struggle with my weight, just like them.” During the confirmation process this past summer, Benjamin came under fire and many accused her of being “too fat to be Surgeon General.” But from her interview [...]
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Research highlights from Working Mother Congress 2009

By Carol Bryce Buchanan | Published: January 4, 2010
On December 15th, FWI hosted an “encore” of the research panel “New Results/Next Steps” convened for the 2009 Working Mother WorkLife Congress. The panel gives an excellent perspective on why flexible work options are so important to companies and employees. You can download the presentation here, or listen to a podcast of the call. We were [...]
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How to Think About Marketing Work-Life Programs

By Morra | Published: December 4, 2009
Any work-life program is only as good as the number of employees who know about it. At the Working Mother Work-Life Congress this October, Dell’s Rolando Balli shared his team’s innovative approach (you can see his presentation here) to creating and communicating work-life programs that engage employees. Balli regularly surveys Dell employees to find out [...]
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Job Sharing: Two moms, one car, great flexibility

By Morra | Published: October 26, 2009
In 2008, 2008, Families and Work Institute found that of 1,100 companies surveyed nationwide, 31 percent offered job sharing. If you’re thinking about job sharing, getting the details right seems to be a big part of the battle. A few weeks ago we wrote about two magazine sales’ executives job sharing scheme. This weekend,  the St. [...]
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FWI on Health: Declining Workplace Health and What to Do

By FWInews | Published: October 22, 2009
Ellen Galinsky was interviewed for a piece on CNN/Health.com where she discusses the latest FWI findings that show “one in three workers has at least one symptom of clinical depression; 41 percent say they feel stressed sometimes, often, or very often; and one in five has trouble falling asleep often or very often. In all, [...]
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Live blogging the Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation

By Morra | Published: October 19, 2009
Maria Shriver, working with the Center for American Progress, release the Shriver Report, subtitled, “A Woman’s Nation.” I participated in a conference call with Shriver and John Podesta, head of the Center for American Progress. The report stems from the finding that women are now, as Gloria Steinem put it, “Now that women are half of [...]
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Looking at wellness: beyond the gym membership

By Ellen Galinsky | Published: October 8, 2009
Cross posted from the Huffington Post: In her recent piece celebrating National Work & Family month, Donna Klein of Corporate Voices notes that “progressive personnel policies and a work culture supportive of occasional flexibility” offers companies “enhanced recruitment, retention, engagement, cost control, productivity and financial performance.” Here’s another reason to support an effective and flexible work culture [...]
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What a week for work life discussion

By ksakai | Published: September 29, 2009
Last week, Families and Work Institute released a new report, State of Health in the American Workforce. The report presents findings by wage level and gender and finds that effective workplaces contribute to positive health, but the overall trend in health of employed American workers is going downward in a number of important areas.  Bloggers [...]
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Women, Men, and Happiness

By Ellen Galinsky and Morra Aarons Mele | Published: September 23, 2009
On the Huffington Post, Marcus Buckingham dropped two pieces of disheartening news: “a) women are less happy than they were 40 years ago, compared with men, and b) as women get older, they get sadder.” Using data over time from the General Social Survey as well as five other international studies, the study Buckingham cites, [...]
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