http://worklifefit.com/blog It's Fit, Not Balance Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:28:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (In addition to the post from my Fast Company blog below, check out this week's: Heartbreaking Reminder--There's No Eldercare) A new poll conducted for an organization called Take Back Your Time found that “69% of Americans support a paid vacation law with a large percentage favoring a law guaranteeing ... http://worklifefit.com/blog/2008/07/17/fast-company-blog-the-vacation-quandary-continues-is-a-law-the-answer-im-not-so-sure/ Every other week, I will be guest blogging at FlexPaths.com...Check out my most recent post below: Last week I asked a friend who doesn’t have children her thoughts on Lisa Belkin’s article in The New York Times about equal parenting. She responded, “It made it look so hard, ... http://worklifefit.com/blog/2008/07/07/whoever-said-this-would-be-easy-my-flexpaths-blog/ (Check out my latest Fast Company blog post, "Launching the "Attention" Movement, Distracted by Maggie Jackson) One of the most entrenched mindset shifts we need to make about work and life in the 21st century is that it’s no longer a dichotomous choice between working or not working. The truth ... http://worklifefit.com/blog/2008/06/25/%e2%80%9cshared-care%e2%80%9d%e2%80%94worklife-fit-in-action/ (Check out my blog this week at Fast Company.com--$10 Gas! The National Work+Life Flex Solution) Ohio state government employees are learning the hard way that workplace flexibility must work for them personally and for the business, or it won’t continue. Their flex-gone-wrong scenario is a cautionary tale for all organizations. ... http://worklifefit.com/blog/2008/05/20/ohios-cautionary-tale-flex-gone-wrong/ (Click here to check out this week's Fast Company post "Work+Life Flex as Retention-Retirement Strategy? Yes, Say More Retirees and Companies") A British medical journal, a Canadian magazine and the medical blogosphere have ignited a controversial debate around the following premise: There are too many women doctors who want ... http://worklifefit.com/blog/2008/04/28/is-the-problem-women-doctors-or-the-way-doctors-work/ Recently I was asked to offer tips for two very different groups--working parents for BusinessWeek.com and small businessowners for SmartMoney.com. BusinessWeek's Working Parents Blog -- How to Keep Your Job (And Flexibility!) in a Recession For BusinessWeek's Working Parents Blog, blogger Lauren Young asked me to provide advice to working ... http://worklifefit.com/blog/2008/04/13/wlfit-tips-keeping-flex-in-recession-businessweek-small-business-smart-money/ At Easter I realized that one year ago my sisters and I were sitting in my mother's hospital room eating Easter dinner from the cafeteria while she recovered from surgery. It was that Easter Day operation that marked the beginning of her rapid decline and the most intense three-month ... http://worklifefit.com/blog/2008/04/02/eldercare-one-year-later/ I was afraid this would happen. Last month in my Fast Company blog (Recession and Work+Life Fit), I noted that as we move into what increasingly seems like a recession, the response of many will most likely be for innovation related to flexibility and work+life fit to stop because: ... http://worklifefit.com/blog/2008/03/26/more-recession-and-worklife-fit-shift-happens/ Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been repeatedly asked: “What do you think will happen to work+life fit and flexibility if the economy experiences a recession?” I think two things will happen. Unfortunately, too many leaders and organizations will default to a shortsighted fall back position, ... http://worklifefit.com/blog/2008/02/01/calis-fast-company-blog-recession-and-worklife-fit/ (Check out my Fast Company Blog: Top Five Work+Life Fit Goals for 2008) According to two separate year-end surveys, over 50% of professionals say finding a better work+life fit is their top goal in 2008 (57% from Beyond.com’s, and 53% from Office Depot’s surveys). What will 2008 year-end survey ... http://worklifefit.com/blog/2008/01/08/can-we-close-the-worklife-fit-gap-in-2008/