Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Or implement policies that discourage work during non-normal work times? Problems arise when companies make such policy decisions without considering whether their employees are engaged.If If we assume work can be engaging and rewarding, rather than a necessary burden, our assumptions about people and policy become quite different.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

However, many cannot see their way through existing HR policies and short-term business imperatives to know how to respond to such requests — let alone be proactive in suggesting possibilities to their people. Managing employees is not easy, and for the most part, human resource policies in large organizations are designed to simplify things.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Companies can respond by introducing transparent, gender-equal, family-friendly policies that offer flexibility and by fostering a culture that places no stigma on those who benefit from them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

As our report indicates, female employees at some companies still face discriminatory hiring and advancement policies. Such policies are often illegal but nonetheless remain in practice. Many companies also need to adopt more progressive policies regarding flextime, career stops, job sharing, and other alternative career paths.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

Employers don’t necessarily have to institute formal programs to allow for telecommuting or flextime. As the Staples report authors point out, policies can be devised to reduce message volumes and employees can be trained and encouraged to use email more effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Maybe you were contemplating a change in employment policies such as flextime or one in customer-facing processes such as a new billing system. The unfortunate result is that organizations persist in implementing ineffective policies and fail to even contemplate the possibility of superior alternatives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

We can’t and probably don’t want to know the details about these teams, but as Solomon points out, if organizations really understood the workplace effects of strong outside relationships, they might be more receptive to policies like flextime and telecommuting that make it easier for employees to spend time with their significant others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

We can’t and probably don’t want to know the details about these teams, but as Solomon points out, if organizations really understood the workplace effects of strong outside relationships, they might be more receptive to policies like flextime and telecommuting that make it easier for employees to spend time with their significant others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

We can’t and probably don’t want to know the details about these teams, but as Solomon points out, if organizations really understood the workplace effects of strong outside relationships, they might be more receptive to policies like flextime and telecommuting that make it easier for employees to spend time with their significant others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

This post was written with Laura Sherbin, a senior vice president and the director of research at the Center for Work-Life Policy. Flextime and programmatic help would help ease the burden. Japan's economic health is threatened. If ever a country needed a breakthrough idea for productivity, it's now. 31%) and Germany (35%).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2011

She and more than 125 representatives of multinational and Chinese-based corporations gathered in Beijing recently to learn the results of a new study by the Center for Work-Life Policy. The rapid pace of change in China offers an opportunity for forward-thinking companies to gain competitive advantage with female-friendly policies.

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