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Building a positive work-life culture

Strategy Driven

When managers have subordinates who face work-life conflicts, the best approach is to direct their efforts toward evaluating actual performance rather than presenteeism or “face-time”. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Her research interests include work-life balance, social identity, and workplace diversity.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business Review

According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express , Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016. I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work. My experience is far from unique.

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

were able to access paid family leave in 2016. According to 2016 numbers, in the finance and insurance industries, 37% of workers have access to some form of paid family leave. According to the National Compensation Survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics , only 14% of civilian workers in the U.S.