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New Research: Flexibility Versus Face Time

Harvard Business Review

ended the company''s telecommuting option for employees early in 2013, and Best Buy followed suit a week later by terminating its groundbreaking, decade-old flexible work program, Results Only Work Environment (ROWE), they joined a growing trend among organizations trading flexibility for face time. When Yahoo! Prior to Yahoo!''s Both Yahoo!

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

People are living longer with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. People have a longer lifespan with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. What can employers do to see that this workforce is given maximum benefits to enact the dual role efficiently and comfortably?