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Government Urges Work-life Balance Improvements
News Work-life balance (WLB) issues are beginning to be one of the key items on the agenda of many large organisations -- and a concern for workers everywhere. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Work-Life Balance Campaign has shown that...
[May 23, 2002, 10:21]
The Bloor Perspective On Work-life Balance
News Last week was National Work-Life Balance Week. The Work Life Balance is the name given to the campaign. One of the most popular ways to gain some work-life balance is through home working - the technology is there, all it takes is for the company...
[October 3, 2002, 17:30]
BlackBerrys And PDAs Harm Work/life Balance
News BlackBerry devices and smartphones may have had a huge impact on executive and employee productivity but they also have a negative impact on work/life balance by making it more difficult to switch off from the office.
[July 19, 2007, 7:44]
Microsoft Rewarded For Work-life Balance Effort
News The need for staff to balance their work and personal lives was recognised by all of the best 100 companies. Asda has won the title of best company to work for in the UK in a survey carried out by The Sunday Times.
[March 26, 2002, 17:06]
Implementing A Flexible Working Plan
Blog After Gordon Brown recently announced his work-life balance agenda, flexible working will soon be widely available to as many as 4.5 million extra parents with teenagers. Now an extra 4.5 million workers will now be able to request better working...
[May 29, 2008, 10:08]
DTI: Teleworking Is Good For Your Health
News It also eases pressure on infrastructure, helps regional development and improves the balance between work and home life for employees, the DTI said. The guidelines are being published to coincide with the third annual Work Life Balance Week, an...
[September 2, 2003, 11:50]
Networking Survey Finds Working Long Hours Endemic
News It has long been known that flexibility increases productivity because it allows people to balance their work-life needs more effectively," said Ryan. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in May relaunched its work-life balance site with...
[July 3, 2002, 11:35]
IT Contractors Focus On Job Security
News According to the survey, IT contractors are now less interested in prioritising softer issues, such as status, prestige and work/life balance, when choosing a contract, preferring to ramp up their hours instead.
[October 29, 2008, 6:30]
Government Launches Flexible Working Drive
News But it warned that greater employer flexibility was still needed for workers to achieve a work/life balance. With statistics showing that only one in seven UK employees is able to work from home occasionally, and just one in 10 is allowed to work...
[May 4, 2006, 14:35]
IT Industry 'still Failing' To Retain Women
News At the conference on Wednesday, Hewitt outlined new work/life balance rights coming into effect in April. Work/life balance legislation The DTI WorkLife Balance Fund is helping a number of companies address these issues; companies signed up so far...
[January 22, 2003, 17:25]
Burnt Out (or Laid Off)? Consider A Career Coach
News Also, Judy Feld, president-elect of the International Coach Federation, finds her clients often require a combination of a better work/life balance and lower job-related stress levels: they can accomplish both goals by improving their nontechnical...
[May 3, 2002, 17:21]
Stop Work-Related Stress With New Stress Management Suite From E-peopleserve
White Papers As cases of stress related illnesses increase and interest in corporate work/life balance becomes part of a company's boardroom agenda, e-peopleserve, the leading provider of outsourced HR services to global organisations, today announced the...
[May 15, 2004, 1:03]
Transforming The Workplace - The Impact Of Mobile Technology On Working Environment
White Papers In an increasingly time-pressured business and personal environment, for many the ability to work in what was previously ‘dead’ time is more important both for productivity and work-life balance. For some, work is no longer just somewhere to go to...
[January 25, 2007, 13:53]
IPods Are Security Risk, Warns Analyst
Talkback John Nammer and myself have been working on work life balance and trust is a big stress factor. 200 GB Hard Disks threaten security Warns this analyst. Why are you employing people who you can't trust, maybe this question should be asked!
[July 6, 2004, 13:13]
Using Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure Solutions To Enable Simple And Secure Teleworking For Federal Employees
White Papers Federal agencies are being encouraged to promote telework and workforce mobility as a way to comply with Public Law 106-346 and achieve goals including recruitment and retention of staff; continuity of operations; reduction of traffic, fuel...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
International Communications Group Increases Employee Productivity With Messaging Solution
White Papers The group was keen to put the unified messaging functionality of Exchange Server 2007 to use in order to: Improve productivity; Offer improved access to information; Support flexible working practices to maintain a healthy work/life balance; Merge...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Beyond Compensation: Strategies For Managing IT Retention And Turnover
White Papers It also looks at the impact of work family life balance. It takes companies beyond compensation, to examine the nature of IT work and the work environment. Nationally and internationally the IT labor market remains hot with hiring and retention...
[October 16, 2003, 0:06]
Blackberry For Professional Services Firms - Extending Key Business Applications Wirelessly
White Papers This webcast will help professional services firms understand what all the buzz is about concerning BlackBerry and how it can help them create a competitive advantage through faster responsiveness to clients and colleagues and increased...
[January 12, 2006, 23:00]
Nortel Enterprise Mobility Solutions
White Papers Mobility solutions can help organisations become more productive, more agile and responsive to emerging market opportunities and threats, and to support increasing demands for a more flexible work/life balance amongst employees.
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
Knowledge Management Process Methodology: An Overview
White Papers It also provides methods for measuring the balance of benefits to costs resulting from KM solutions, as well as methods for developing KM metrics. Insofar as KM Methodology is treated at all, it is frequently viewes as a full Life Cycle Methodology.
[September 12, 2003, 2:39]
