The Families and Work Institute released their 2012 National Study of Employers. This study examines trends related to workplace flexibility, health care … Read more
Why Organizations Need to Focus on Performance-Driven Engagement
Editor’s Note: Gerry Ledford will be giving a longer speech on the topic at next week’s TLNT Transform conference in How Employee Engagement … Read more
Does The Future of Work Involve Crowdsourcing? Let’s Hope Not
I’m a big fan of the free market. I like negotiating deals, making money and buying services and deals in a voluntary, open market. You don’t … Read more
“Flexible Work” Trend Still Necessitates Wage-Hour Compliance
By Edward N. Boehm Jr. A recent Time magazine item by Dan Schawbel of Millennial Branding discusses what he sees as a growing trend to abandon the … Read more
Looking Back of 2011: For Many, a Year of Overwork – or Underwork
I’m pretty numb to the flood of year-in-review stories that the media love at this time of year, mainly because they’re largely shallow, … Read more
HR Buzz Words for 2012: Collaboration, Virtual, and Mobile
Editor’s note: The TLNT Radio show is a weekly podcast where we talk to the top minds in talent management. New episodes are posted here at TLNT every … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Why Do Middle Managers Resist Flex-Work for Employees?
If you’re one of those people who keep close watch on the changing trends in the workforce, you might think that flexible schedules and working … Read more
5 Assumptions About Work-Life Flexibility That Are Absolutely Wrong
Employers may not know as much about work-life flexibility as they think, according to a report from the Families and Work Institute and the Society for … Read more
Your Workers Think Using Work-Life Is A Career Killer (But How To Fix That)
Editor’s note: The TLNT Radio show is a weekly podcast where we talk to the top minds in talent management. New episodes are posted here at TLNT every … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Collaborative Space – Good Idea, Until You Need a Little Privacy
Here’s an office trend I’m not completely buying into: shared, collaborative workspaces. I get the upside to it, and I agree with the general … Read more
Helping Hourly Workers Start to Get in on the Flex-Work Trend
Call this the other end of the spectrum from the recent TLNT story about how some brain-dead and backward companies were punishing employees for utilizing … Read more
Survey: Employees Sometimes Get Penalized For Using Work-Life Programs
Think employee engagement is important? Believe that work-life issues and the flexible workplace matters? Well, then this latest global research from the … Read more
Utah’s 4-Day Work Week: A Smart Experiment That Deserved a Better Chance
I love the four-day work week. My wife works one for most of the year and it, in combination with my ability to work anywhere with a reasonable Internet … Read more
Survey: Workers Frequently Call in Sick When They Aren’t Sick at All
Just about every manager and HR pro on the planet knows that many employees who call in for work sick aren’t really sick at all. Back when I was a … Read more
Savings From Remote Work: One State Could Save $1.5 Billion a Year
When it comes to telework and remote working arrangements, one of the toughest things to get your hands around is how much money doing it actually saves. … Read more
Managing a Virtual Workforce: How to Cope With This Growing Trend
We here at TLNT might be a bit more curious about virtual workforces than most because that’s what we operate under every day. We’ve mastered … Read more
Study: Companies Have Opportunities As Workers Flock to Free Agency
The number of “free agent” workers has nearly exploded in the last three years, and now 44 percent of working Americans describe themselves … Read more
Extreme Commutes May Be Bad, But Is There a Reasonable Alternative?
I was sitting in traffic on the I-5 south of Portland where I was going on Hour Two of not moving more than a half a mile. I pulled onto the shoulder and … Read more
Fostering Collaboration When You Have a Remote and Mobile Workforce
Much has been written about today’s increasingly mobile workforce. The popularity of smart phones, laptops and tablets within the business world means … Read more
Beyond the White Collar: How to Get Flexibility For Blue Collar Workers, Too
What do you think of when you think about workplace flexibility? If you’re like many people, you probably think of white collar knowledge workers who … Read more