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...

We're all talking about the Huffington Post column in which 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...

No matter what your position is on the health care debate, almost everyone seems to agree that the path we are on is an untenable route to increasing costs and diminishing returns. New data show American workers are getting less healthy each year, and this obviously will increase health care...

Smart employers are using flexible work options to manage through the recession -- and help their employees manage. The organization I head, the Families and Work Institute, highlights 260 award-winning employers across the U.S. using innovative approaches and practices including:

• Giving employees four Fridays off in the summer...

On May 7th I attended the event that is now plastering the news: the First Lady Michelle Obama spoke out on work-life issues.

You may have heard some of the lines from her speech at Corporate Voices for Working Families -- that she is a 120-percenter, meaning that if...

I am glad that the 2008 election has raised the issue of working families. This has been a "sleeper" issue, but no more! After the nomination of Sarah Palin, working families are responding in such high numbers that they are jamming the airwaves, filling up blogs, even crashing websites as...