10 Ways You Can Make Work Fit With Life and Family

We juggle more responsibilities today than ever before. Work. School. Childcare. Elder care. Volunteerism. The list goes on. There is simply not enough time in the day for everything we're expected to do. Unfortunately, scientists still haven't figured out how to add more hours to the day. But we do have another kind of innovation: many companies have come up with creative ways for employees to balance their lives and still be successful at their jobs. Here are ten of my favorite ideas. Read 'em all and vote for your favorite on the sidebar.

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Raise your hand if you'd like to be able to give back to your community. Now raise your other hand if you just don't have enough time to do that. Now that we're all sitting at our computers doing the wave, let's talk about companies that know it makes good business sense to make volunteering part of work. For example, Intel, the Arizona-based technology company, gives employees time off during the workday to volunteer. It gives workers a sense of personal fulfillment and responsibility, and it creates a stronger connection between the company and the community than just writing a check could ever do. It's just plain smart. You can put your hands down now and move on to the next slide.

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Raise your hand if you'd like to be able to give back to your community. Now raise your other hand if you just don't have enough time to do that. Now that we're all sitting at our computers doing the wave, let's talk about companies that know it makes good business sense to make volunteering part of work. For example, Intel, the Arizona-based technology company, gives employees time off during the workday to volunteer. It gives workers a sense of personal fulfillment and responsibility, and it creates a stronger connection between the company and the community than just writing a check could ever do. It's just plain smart. You can put your hands down now and move on to the next slide.

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What did we miss? Does your company have a flexible program that should be on the list?
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[MyrtleJune]

03:33 PM on 11/19/2010

Bring baby to work for parents or grandparents is a BAD idea. There is work to do and it is disruptive for the workers to say nothing of the neglect for the baby. No. Babies and children need more attention than a worker can provide. This is not a good idea.

[Rex Flexibility]

04:27 PM on 11/19/2010

@MyrtleJune - it's not for every company, that's for sure, but it can work. My company keeps one office empty so that employees can use it as needed -- if someone is sick and wants to stay away from others, of if the sitter doesn't show up and you have to bring your kid along with you.

[MyrtleJune]

04:28 PM on 11/20/2010

That makes no sense. If the worker's sitter didn't show up, they're going to bring their child and stick it in a room all day? No they are not. They're going to disrupt everyone's work tending to their child and their child is not going to be very well tended to sitting a room all day. I've seen this. I've sat in meeting that are rendered worthless because someone's sitter didn't show up. This person should just stay home and take care of their FIRST priority, their child and not come and disrupt everyone's work. It's about productivity. Perhaps that worker can work from home that day and accomplish 1/3 or 1/2 the work they'd do in the office. Causing everyone in the office to only accomplish a fraction of their work because its cool to bring their child to work is just not what companies should be concerning themselves with. They're paying you to be ON THE JOB not babysitting or entertaining bored children, no matter how sweet and cute they are.