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Poor Work-Life Balance Top Reason for Resignation

HR Digest

This could include telecommuting, flextime, or compressed workweeks. This helps employees avoid working excessive hours and feeling stressed. This could include on-site fitness centers, health screenings, or stress management classes. Here are a few things employers can do: Offer flexible work arrangements.

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Strike a Balance: Tips for a Fulfilling Work and Life Experience

HR Digest

This can lead to stress reduction, better sleep, and improved overall employee wellness. Increased productivity: When employees are stressed and overworked, their productivity can suffer.

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Working Mother Rights: What moms need to know

HR Digest

A stream of columns on the Internet suggests how working mothers can work from home, maintain better work/life balance, and handle stress. Flextime allows you to complete your work commitments as well as childcare. Just in September, 865,000 women left the U.S. workforce, compared to the 216,000 men – a drop that’s four times higher.

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Interact with Employees and Impact Productivity

Coaching Tip

Gallup also found, in a separate study ( [link] ), that regardless of the number of hours worked, weeks of vacation time or a company''s flextime policy, engaged workers have a higher overall level of well being. Stress@Work. Noelle Nelson, a career and workplace expert and author of " Make More Money By Making Your Employees Happy.".

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Flextime Is Declining, But “Flex Around the Edges” Is Up

Harvard Business Review

Are such “right to request” laws indicators of a rise in flextime? Or do they reflect a fear that flextime programs are being eliminated? Extended flextime, such as job sharing, part-time work, and sabbaticals, is an even stronger employee magnet. The answer seems to be a confusing “both.”

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American workers need a break, says Monster survey

HR Digest

The stress of juggling work and your home life, including children stuck at home because of school and summer camp closures, it’s no wonder Americans are exhausted. For 36-year-old Kimberly Miller, life was fraught with stress when the pandemic first hit and she was stuck home, working full time and helping school her daughter. “I

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Be Flexible, Attract Talent

Marshall Goldsmith

So what are some of the best practices around flexible work and flextime? Method Home Products used one of our professionals to cover a maternity backfill and saw firsthand the benefits of avoiding extra stress on the other members of the department by asking them to cover her work while she was out.

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