October 2006 GSK's Team Resilience Blends Business Results and Personal Priorities Universities Begin the Next Chapter in Work-Life Benefit Walking as a First Step Toward Fitter Employees: Turnkey Tracking Programs Help Companies Save Health-Care Dollars ATP Oil & Gas Corp. Takes a New Approach to Employee Motivation For the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, Wellness Really Does Matter

June 2006

• Most Workers Content with Compensation Package, But Want Flexible Schedules
• The Overwhelmed Office - Six Fixes for the Stressed-Out Productivity-Challenged Workplace
• Small Business Owners Likely to Mix Business with Pleasure
• Working Adults Say They Couldn't Take More Than One Month of Unpaid Vacation Before Running Out of Money

May 2006

• Work-Life News
  • Corporate Voices for Working Families Releases Guidelines to Implement Flexibility in the Workplace
  • Satisfying Three Critical Factors Helps Improve Employees’ Enthusiasm
  • Survey: Work-Life Environment Dramatically Changed

April 2006 The “It” Factor: The New Total Rewards Model Flexibility Through Technology: A Sun Microsystems Case Study Everyone Wants an Engaged Workforce: How Can you Create One? awlp.org • Events • Network • Tools You Can Use Letter from the Director Work-Life News Bookshelf Conference Candids: Scenes from the 10th Annual AWLP Conference & Exhibition

March 2006

• Making the List is Cause for Celebration
• Work-Life News
  • AWLP Announces 2006 Work-Life Innovative Excellence Award Recipients
  • Nearly One-In-Five Workers Admits to Telling Lies at the Office
  • 6th Annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award Winners

February 2006 A Special Message from WorldatWork Letter from the Director awlp/10thanniversary.org AWLP Celebrates 10 Years Alliance for Work-Life Progress Timeline AWLP Founding Members Work-Life Voices Evolution of Work-Life Professional Education Origins of AWLP National Work & Family Month

January 2006

• Happy Anniversary - AWLP Turns 10
• Letter From the AWLP Director
• Work-Life News
  • Study Shows Older Workers Are a Solid Investment
  • Under-Worked Employees Are Again The Least Happy; Balanced Workload Is Best
  • Stress and Overwork Making U.S. IT Workers Restless

December 2005

• Work-Life News
• More than Half of Employees Say They Are "Worse Off" Financially than Last Year
• 'Tis the Season to be Distracted
• Wanted: Motivated Employees

November 2005

• Work-Life News
• More than 40% Plan to Change Jobs in the Next 12 Months
• Small Employers Offer More Flexibility; Large Employers Offer More Benefits
• Employers Have Huge Stake in Promoting Depression Treatment

October 2005 A Winning Game: Engaged Employees Equal Business Success Celebrate! National Work and Family Month Never Stop Learning: United Technology Corp.’s Award-Winning Approach to Employee Education Assistance Letter from the Director Work-Life News Bookshelf Best Practices

September 2005

• Work-Life News
• Consortium Finds Improved Communication with Employees
• Index Says Workers Are Anxious About Their Jobs
• Preparing for an Aging Workforce
• Work-Life Effectiveness More Difficult to Achieve

August 2005 A Growing Trend: The Value of Commuter Benefits Building a Successful Virtual Culture Workplace Breastfeeding Support Programs: Why They’re More Valuable Than You Think The Team Approach to Tackling Overwork Singapore’s Work-Life Harmony Letter from the Director Work-Life News Bookshelf Best Practices

July 2005

• On the Road: Work-Life Conference Is a Call For Action
• Work-Life News
• Women More Worried About Health Care Costs
• Employees Say Bosses Aren’t Listening
• New Survey Focuses on “Bad Bosses”
• Employers Receive Awards for Promoting Healthy Workplaces
• Research Identifies Future Workplace Trends and Skills Necessary for Success

June 2005

• Work-Life News
• Employees Are Stressed, Not Confident in Leaders, Says Study
• Management Leads Charge in Field of Work-Life, Says Study
• Office Bullies May Be Few in Number, But They Still Cause Problems for Employees
• Job Satisfaction, Confidence On the Rise
• Re-engaged Workforce Is More Stressed, Yet More Effective

May 2005 A Look at the U.S.Army: High Stakes for the Family and Soldier Readiness System It’s Three O’Clock: Working Parents’ Productivity Takes A Hit The Child Support Challenge: The Need for Employer Intervention Letter from the Director New Ideas Bookshelf Best Practices

April 2005

• Feeding the Sandwich Generation
• Creating Commitment Using Tried and True Retention Strategies
• New Ideas

March 2005

• Thinking Outside the Benefits Box
• Regaining Employee Loyalty: Tools to Win the Fight
• New Ideas

February 2005 Getting a Wellness Program into Shape Building a Vendor-Managed Global EAP: How The Dow Chemical Co. Did It Retention Report Card: Does Your Organization Make the Grade? Letter from the Director New Ideas Bookshelf Best Practices

January 2005

• The State of Stress in the Workplace
• Supervisors Bring Heavy 'Weight' to Work-Life Balance
• New Ideas

December 2004

• The Mobile Global Workforce: Building Productive Expatriate Assignments
• Making PTO Volunteer Programs Pay
• New Ideas

November 2004

• Creating Equity in the Workplace: A Business Problem to Solve
• Understanding the New Workforce
• Fathers in the Workplace Speak Up
• The Missing Link: The Role of Employee Engagement in Business Success
• New Ideas

September/October 2004

• Speaker Strives to Build Father-Friendly Workplaces
• Work-Life Certificate Courses Help Professionals Win the ROI Battle
• Keeping Your Workplace from Going to the Dogs
• Commentary - EAP Telecounseling: Entering Uncharted Territory
• New Ideas

August 2004

• Work-Life in Focus as Comp Time Enters Political Fray
• A CLEAR Path to Organizational Ethics
• Early Studies Show Californians Support New State Family Leave Law
• Work-Life Developments in Singapore

July 2004

• NWLI Webinar Helps to Build Energy for Work-Life Programs
• The Term Work-Life Balance, Versus Work-Life Effectiveness

June 2004

• Effective Programs Needed to Handle Work-Life Conflict
• Work-Life Conference Looks at Future
• Keep Employees Engaged To Stay Competitive

May 2004

• AWLP, Work/Life Today Survey Delivers Good News for Work-Life Profession
• Work-life Construction: Seven Levers for Change
• FLSA, 541 and the Work-Life Practitioner
• Women Business Owners Offered Flex Programs

April 2004

• Demystifying the Myths of Telework
• Triple Take: Who's Responsible for Work-Life Effectiveness?

March 2004

• Cisco Offers Revolutionary E-Learning Breastfeeding Education
• Let’s Not Ignore the Mothers
• Resilience and Adaptability: Keys to Personal Work-Life Effectiveness

February 2004

• A Commentary on the Commentaries on the Opt Out Revolution
• Unpublished letters to The New York Times
• DOL Leader Discusses Workplace Issues
• Best of the Best — Results from Kanter Research
• Assessing ROI of Work-Life Programs

January 2004

• Executive Summary: Key Findings of Our Ten Year Workplace Study (1993-2003)
• Kathy Lingle Named New AWLP Director

October 2003 - Internet Pioneers in the Work-Life Field

• Internet Pioneers in Work-Life
• Dual-Centrism (Continued from last month)

September 2003 - Dual-Centrism: A New Concept in Work-Life

• Dual Centrism: A New Concept
• Living Proof: Comments by Dual-Centric Professionals

August 2003 - Work-Life Research in Academia

• Work-Life Research in Academia: A Few Observations
• Supporting Gay Employees in the Workplace

July 2003 - Change in the World of Employers and Employees

• What's Changing in the World of Employers
• What’s Changing in the World of Employees

June 2003 - Change in the Work-Life Field

• What’s Happened to the Field, A Conversation Among Work-Life Pioneers
• AWLP, Work/Life Today Survey Shows Changes in Field

May 2003 - The Alliance in New Online Format

• Significant Number of Union Workers Feel the Time Squeeze
  

January 2003 - Perils of Part-Time

• Sue Shellenbarger on the unintended consequences of a flexible schedule
• Rupert & Company on the latest from Rhona Rapoport et al.
• Shelley MacDermid on the flexibility that really works
• Policy or Practice? Flexibility at federal workplaces
• And...Profiling pioneers of the Work/Life Certificate program

October 2002 - Focus on the Future

• Robert Reich on Corporate Responsibility
• Women in the Work-Life agenda
• Fun and networking in Orlando
• Breaking out: highlights of 3 conference sessions
• BPW/USA: the other conference

June 2002 - Changing times for Work/Life

• Amy Gage reports on the facts and fictions of changing times
• The experts speak: quotes from some of the fields respected thinkers
• Shelley MacDermid discusses the demographics of change
• Your chance to weigh in on Sylvia Ann Hewlett's recent research

May 2002 - Can we reclaim time to think?

• Meg Wheatley and time to think
• Maggie Jackson and our sense of time
• Three work/life professionals who have reworked their time
• Time spent with children
• Research updates