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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

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In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs

Harvard Business Review

Today, nearly 80% of people who work for organizations with 50 or more employees have access to a wellness program, according to a 2013 RAND study commissioned by the U.S. They attributed those losses both to absenteeism and to “presenteeism,” when employees come to work too unwell to do their jobs. Department of Labor and the U.S.

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

According to a 2013 Department of Labor report, only around 60% of employees meet the FMLA criteria, About 16% of eligible employees reported using FMLA, with 57% of those employees taking leave for their own illness, 22% for reasons relating to a new child, and almost 20% to care for an ill parent, spouse or child.