Work/Life Movement Accepted in Organizations
Austin, TX (ContentDesk) February 28, 2006 -- The work/life movement started in the 1970s in an attempt to make the workplace more family-friendly. It encompasses all policies and programs that employers may offer to their employees that help them better balance the demands of work and the needs of their personal lives.
Wellness programs help with dependent care issues, and workplace flexibility are some of the key options within family-friendly programs.Businesses that offer work/life programs are becoming aware of the predicted population demographics for the near future. It is estimated that by 2010 64% of the workforce will be at retirement age. While all of them may not choose to retire, there clearly will be less people available to work, claims Angelina Laycock, Work/Life specialist.
There simply will be fewer new (younger) workers available to fill the needs of business and industry. Also, the new generation of workers is determined to have some balance in their lives and is more willing to move on if their employer will not support their needs.
It is evident in much of the recent research that being a family-friendly employer means that the workers are more loyal, more productive and tend to stay with the organization.
Retention of employees is important because turnover is very costly.
Being able to recruit and retain workers is a key business advantage of being family-friendly. There are two options that employers can offer that are critical, continues Laycock, president of Roma Communications based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. One is helping with the dependent needs of workers and the other is offering flexibility.
Employees with children and increasingly more often, those with elderly dependents need help in meeting the needs of those dependent on them.
Offering workplace flexibility by allowing such options as modifying work schedules, telecommuting, working less than full time and job sharing are truly needed by people in the current workforce.Every company, regardless of size, can be family-friendly.
There are many options that
do not cost much if anything. Laycock explains, For example, to allow an employee some work scheduling flexibility doesnt cost anything.
It just rearranges the time when work gets done.
One small manufacturer who put his shop on a four-day (compressed) workweek, found that it saved on electricity, helped shorten commuting time for employees, allowed workers more time for family and allowed for emergency customer needs by leaving Fridays open for these occasional occurrences. It cost him nothing to implement, made work more efficient, increased worker satisfaction and increased profits by meeting customer needs, continues Laycock.
Providing healthy food choices in company vending machines doesnt cost the employer anything either.
In fact, anything an employer does to encourage health can save on medical insurance costs.Most human resource professionals know change is needed.
They are confronted every day with the issues that employees face.
They also are responsible for the hiring of staff and realize it is getting more difficult to fill positions.
But HR people generally dont make policy.
I see them as the messengers who remain passionate about the issues, gather the available evidence and continually make the business case for why change is an imperative for success, explains author of Strategies for Reshaping the Workplace .
Digital Photo Printing: Is There Life After the 4 x 6-Inch Print? Lyra Imaging Symposium Tackles New Photo-Printing Landscape
Newton, MA (ContentDesk) January 6, 2006 -- What do consumers do with digital photo prints? The 2006 Lyra Imaging Symposiums (www.lyra.com/symposium) comprehensive segment on the consumer imaging markets will offer insightful research and analysis on how consumers photographic habits that remained unchanged for nearly a century have now been thrown into chaos by digital technology. Long accustomed to a well-defined set of products and services offered by a handful of manufacturers and retailers, photographers now face a market packed with a myriad of constantly changing photo devices and services offered by hundreds of manufacturers and retailers. The Symposium will be held January 2325, 2006, at the Rancho Las Palmas Marriott Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage, CA. Charles LeCompte, president of Lyra Research and director of Lyras Digital Photography Advisory Service explains, Its chaos out there in the digital photography...
Digital Photo Printing: Is There Life After the 4 x 6-Inch Print? Lyra Imaging Symposium Tackles New Photo-Printing Landscape
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How a broken leg became the beginning of a new lifestyle
Copyright 2006 Ingela Berger
A man I know had an accident one autumn as he was working in the woods. The leaves had fallen to the ground and the rain had fallen on the leaves. Wet leaves are very slippery, and this man knew that, but on a slope he lost control, fell and broke his right leg.
He was lucky to have company, and soon he was in an ambulance on his way to the hospital. He was not so lucky to know that the leg was broken in several places and the operation that followed was somewhat complicated and left him with rather a large number of screws in his bone.
He received a small amount of money from his insurance company, but it was just enough to cover the expenses for his hospital care, his torn clothes and boots.
A year later he still had some ugly scars, the skin on the leg was partly numb, and he found it a little hard to walk. His right leg pointed slightly outward, it had an angle that was just a bit too wide and made him...
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SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company, Inc. Appoints Carol Coffman to Board of Directors; Richard Gibbs to Corporate Advisory Board
New York, NY (ContentDesk) August 18, 2005 -? SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company, Inc., a financial services company dedicated to building long-term relationships with its customers and empowering them through financial education, today announced changes to its board of directors and advisory board.Carol Coffman, principal of FFN Advisors, a strategic brokerage in the education marketplace, was appointed to the Company's board of directors.
Richard Gibbs, a former executive vice president and chief financial officer of TIAA-CREF, joined the Company's corporate advisory board.
"We welcome Carol Coffman to our board of directors and Richard Gibbs to our corporate advisory board," said Vikki L. Pryor, president and CEO of SBLI USA.
"The tremendous expertise of these individuals in their respective fields will serve as an excellent complement to the current composition of our board members, and benefit our management team as we continue to achieve our strategic...
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Pollution Liability Insurance
Pollution liability insurance is known as "pollution incidents" in the insurance world.
There is a thought to suggest that this insurance policy came into picture following the great amount of asbestos litigation in the 1970s. It was around that time that insurers thought it better to do away with pollution liability insurance in general policies and instead offer it independently.
Pollution liability insurance protects you in two ways: one is when the pollution takes place on your property; the other is when you suffer losses resulting from pollution on somebody else's property. In such cases, it is the insurer's responsibility to recover costs from the party that caused the incident. Conversely, your policy pays for damages you may cause to other properties.
The most general use of pollution insurance is to protect lenders, buyers and sellers in property transactions. Conventionally, buyers do hire environmental consultants to assess sites....
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Super Rules, OK?
Do you rule your superannuation or does it rule you?It's easy to fall for some myths about your super unless you do some clear thinking about who is in charge.
Virtually all Australian employees now have a superannuation account, many have several, even more than they know about.
We all hope to use this money to fund our retirement, but unless you look after your super then you are in danger of losing some of your money along the way.Myth number 1. Someone else can look after my super.
Only partly right.
It is possible go through your working life letting your super run on autopilot, but you may be in for an unpleasant surprise if you don't keep an eye on your super.
Make sure your employer is paying the correct amount, and that if your employer goes broke your super is still available.If you change jobs you need to decide if you wish to ?roll over' the money into another fund.
This is especially important if you change jobs frequently.
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Pollution Liability Insurance
Pollution liability insurance is known as "pollution incidents" in the insurance world.
There is a thought to suggest that this insurance policy came into picture following the great amount of asbestos litigation in the 1970s. It was around that time that insurers thought it better to do away with pollution liability insurance in general policies and instead offer it independently.
Pollution liability insurance protects you in two ways: one is when the pollution takes place on your property; the other is when you suffer losses resulting from pollution on somebody else's property. In such cases, it is the insurer's responsibility to recover costs from the party that caused the incident. Conversely, your policy pays for damages you may cause to other properties.
The most general use of pollution insurance is to protect lenders, buyers and sellers in property transactions. Conventionally, buyers do hire environmental consultants to assess sites....
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Attitude Insurance: What is it?
(ContentDesk) August 30, 2005 -- Everyone knows the importance of having a positive attitude, especially in the health insurance industry. Even negative people say that they have a positive attitude.
All agents have seen it one time or another.
They are at a meeting, and in the hallway during one of those five minute breaks they notice a woman on the telephone.
In fact, she's on the phone on every break.
Finally one agent says, "calling your husband, huh?" to which she quickly responds, "No! Setting appointments."
She's obviously protecting or insuring her ?good attitude'. She's making sure that the outside influence of a meeting will not affect her production goals or her ?good attitude'.
Or, what about the guy who's sitting at a table by himself at the Monday morning ?turn-in' meeting.
He's busy wrestling with a pile of papers and hasn't said a word to anyone.
Someone goes up to him and says something about the...
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