Most organizations approach flexibility either as an ad hoc work-life accommodation or as permission for employees to get their work done on their own...

You can tailor programs and policies to fit your employees’ needs.

A balance of predictability and flexibility.

Working parenthood was hard before Covid-19--now it's an all-out crisis. In "A Way Forward for Working Parents," Daisy Dowling argues that it's time to...

It matters who has access to work-life balance — and who doesn’t.

This article identifies three types of traps that can emerge when implementing workplace flexibility-altered work-life dynamics, reduced fairness perceptions,...

Teaching managers to be more supportive of their direct reports’ work/life issues can be a simple and effective route to improving employee health and satisfaction, according to our multiyear study of hundreds of frontline workers and dozens of supervisors in middle-America supermarkets. Supervisors are eager for such help: Many want to be supportive, but with […]

by Ellen Ernst Kossek All the talk about pain at the pump misses an important point: High gas prices can work to a company’s benefit, if the company uses them as an opportunity to initiate or expand flexible work arrangements such as a compressed work week or telecommuting. Several states have done so. Oklahoma and […]

Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio recently took away most flexible work arrangements for state government workers, a move that was endorsed by the Cleveland...