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Consulting
Counseling
Eldercare
Employee Assistance
Flexibility
Health and Wellness
Help for Employees
Relocation
Resource & Referral
Seminars and Training

Childcare & Parenting

Action for Children’s Parent Education Programs
Action for Children (AfC) is THE SOURCE for information, education, and resources for child care and early learning in central Ohio. AfC assists parents through their journey of parenthood by offering parent education programs that help to improve parents’ communication skills so they can build and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with their children. These programs are offered as 1-2 hour topic-specific workshops for individuals or groups and three-and six-week classes in all Columbus neighborhoods. For more information, visit www.positiveparents.com or call 614/224-0222 ext 103.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions
Bright Horizons Family Solutions is the world's leading provider of employer-sponsored child care, early education, and work-life consulting services, managing more than 600 early care and family centers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. Bright Horizons serves more than 700 clients, including more than 95 FORTUNE 500 companies and 70 of the "100 Best Companies" as recognized by Working Mother magazine. Bright Horizons is proud to be recognized as one of FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" in 2007. Visit our Web site at www.brighthorizons.com. For more information email ClientServices@brighthorizons.com or call 800-324-4386.

ConnectEdu
ConnectEdu is the market-leading education solutions company focused on helping families successfully manage student transitions. Via expert advising and a comprehensive, award-winning going-to-college portal – Connect!® – we guide families through all aspects of preparing, searching, applying, affording and financing post-secondary education. Presently, we count hundreds of thousands families all of them via qualified channels, including progressive employers, high school districts, and higher education institutions (2- and 4-Year) as engaged, informed and satisfied Connect! users. Additionally, ConnectEdu partners with academic institutions and employers who seek to build relationships with qualified students for admission and recruitment purposes. Visit www.connectedu.net for more information.

Employer Partnerships - Together We Inspire™
A division of Knowledge Learning Corporation, the leading provider of early childhood care and education in the nation, Employer Partnerships designs high-quality child development programs to meet the goals of our partners and the needs of their employees. We operate 123 employer-sponsored centers that reflect the unique populations they serve. With access to almost 2000 KLC centers nationwide, Employer Partnerships also collaborates with over 1200 employers to implement National Backup and Discount programs. Through this network, our partners offer equitable child care benefits to a distributed workforce and targeted benefits at larger worksites. Visit our website at www.klcemployerpartnership.com or call 1-800-633-1488 x1574.

Foundations for Families
Supporting Children, Empowering Families, Strengthening Community. Founded and managed by child development and education experts, Foundations for Families matches families to specific child care and school options based on philosophy and fit; supports parents through interactive parenting workshops and coaching sessions; and strengthens company benefits programs with enhanced school and child care selection services. Foundations for Families works with families to present choices that reflect each family’s priorities and needs. Foundations for Families applies expert knowledge of child development and quality environments for care and education to give working families peace of mind. www.foundationsforfamilies.com
703-599-4329 or e-mail info@foundationsforfamilies.com.

Perspectives
Perspectives is an independent firm still owned and operated by its original founders. Since 1981, our primary business has been delivering human services to the workplace. Our mission is to create a healthier, safer and more productive workforce. We emphasize:
-an individualized approach to our client organizations' cultures that includes proactive account management aimed at integrating EAP/WorkLife services with HR and Benefits initiatives/issues
-early intervention with employee issues before they impact the workplace
-timely responsiveness to organizational needs
-one-stop shopping through the integrated provision of: EAP, Work Life, Managed Behavioral Healthcare and Online Education
Website: www.perspectivesltd.com
Contact #: 1-800-866-7556

Summa Associates
Summa Associates is a work-life child care consulting and management firm with over 30 years of experience. An industry leader in designing, developing and managing employer supported child care, sick care, drop-in care, and home child care networks, Summa also provides child and elder care referral services and drop-in child care play areas. Summa has conducted numerous studies on research topics of work and family balance, employee satisfaction, corporate communication, training, flexible schedules, child and elder care needs, and many other work/life topics. Summa has a positive reputation of providing solutions that meet the needs of both the employee and employer. Contact Summa Associates at 480-921-2266 or www.summa-assoc.com.

The Family & Workplace Connection (FWC)
The Family & Workplace Connection (FWC) is a nonprofit dependent care resource and referral organization whose programs enhance the supply and quality of care for children and elders, and help families effectively manage their work and personal life responsibilities. For more than a decade, FWC has operated the nationally recognized Just in Time Care® program, a comprehensive backup dependent care program that helps employees choose backup care they are most comfortable with, for a wide variety of circumstances. Backup care costs are offset by an employer subsidy, which is fully administered by FWC. Perfect for companies with field sales or numerous locations! Contact Gerri Weagraff, 888-390-2900; www.familyandworkplace.org.

WFD Consulting
WFD Consulting has worked with over half of Working Mother magazine’s "100 Best Companies," over half of Catalyst award winners, and over 20% of Fortune Magazine’s "100 Best Employers" to develop pioneering employer-of-choice and work-life programs. In 26 countries around the world, WFD has helped clients assess and address work-life issues at the workplace and in the community. We implement retention and engagement strategies, measure bottom line impact of work-life efforts, manage corporate collaborations, create team solutions to workload issues, design workplace flexibility systems, identify dependent care solutions, and build women’s advancement and retention programs. Contact us at 800-447-0543 or www.wfd.com.

Work Options Group
Work Options Group's Backup Care Options program is the leading full-service backup care benefit available. For over 10 years, Backup Care Options has provided companies with a proven, cost-effective way to reduce absenteeism and increase productivity. Backup Care Options resolves every common breakdown in child, adult, and elder caregiving situations and allows organizations to provide consistent benefits to all employees in all locations by offering nationwide backup care, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for loved ones of any age, whether they are healthy or ill. www.workoptionsgroup.com or Toll-Free at 1.866.312.4332 or by e-mail at: info@workoptionsgroup.com.

WorkingCaregiver.com
An online caregiving community providing resources, information and services for working family caregivers to lessen the hardships of eldercare. Staffed by experts, their support groups and comprehensive online forum covering all aspects of eldercare make this a valuable resource for employees. www.WorkingCaregiver.com

Working Family Resource Center
The Working Family Resource Center (WFRC), a program of Saint Paul Public Schools, has supported working families in the workplace for twenty years. WFRC offers seminars and other educational products and services covering topics throughout the lifespan at the worksite. Every aspect of the program is linked to research-based best practices, ensuring that working families have ongoing access to quality information from institutions of higher learning throughout the country. Working Family Resource Center, 325 Cedar Street, Suite 250, St. Paul, MN 55101, 651-293-5330, www.workingfamilyresourcecenter.org.

Coaching/Executive Coaching

Cathleen O’Connor
Work/Life Author/Speaker Cathleen O’Connor offers coaching, consulting and work/life seminars for individuals, groups and organizations, combining her experience as a corporate executive and entrepreneur with her interests in interpersonal dynamics, ethics and an empowered workforce. Cathleen’s workshops and coaching speak to the individual’s role in understanding what is needed in order to live a full life, including a commitment to work that has energy, focus and enthusiasm. Cathleen crafts and delivers programs around a five-point (work, health, family, play and spirit) approach that she originated to address the complexities of the work/life challenge. Contact Cathleen via her website at www.cathleenoconnor.com.

Inspiring Leaders
Cheryl Edwardes, Leadership and Networking Consultant of Inspiring Leaders, offers mentoring, and leadership and career workshops to inspire others to better balance work, life and family. As a wife, mother, grandmother, businesswoman, solicitor and community leader, Cheryl draws on her own experiences to encourage others to make the most of their skills and abilities. Who better to tell the story and inspire others than one who left school at 15, worked as a check-out operator, studied part-time, maintained a full and active life and rose to become Western Australia’s first female Attorney General. www.cheryledwardes.com.au

Concierge Services

Consulting

Artemis Management Consultants
Artemis assists organizations and individuals to manage change. We helped to spearhead the cutting-edge research sponsored by the Ford Foundation on how to change corporate culture to support work-life challenges. We develop corporate change strategies, coach managers, design and deliver workshops and web based training on telecommuting, virtual team building, culture change and redesigning work processes. We design on-line surveys to assess needs. Artemis is also an expert on providing Leadership Training and Coaching especially to women managers. For more information visit www.ArtemisManagement.com.

Circle of Business
Circle of Business (COB), an enterprise of Action for Children, was formed to foster work/life effectiveness while improving business performance. COB assists employers as they deal with issues that affect their employees’ lives such as child care, elder care and health care. There are currently fifty small to large local companies that are members of Circle of Business. For more information about COB, visit www.circleofbusiness.org or call Darlene Haas at 614/224-0222 ext. 156.

Harris, Rothenberg International
Harris, Rothenberg International, LLC, is a performance management firm. We help companies solve their most challenging and complex people issues. In everything we do, we work to remove the barriers that prevent organizations and employees from achieving their best. Founded in 1982, HRI is one of the oldest and most respected firms of its kind. We offer an extensive array of consulting services to help your organization target the issues that impact employee performance and productivity. We have the in-house expertise to provide solutions and help your organization obtain its goals. For more information please contact info@harrisrothenberg.com or call 800-441-7509.

ICF International works with clients around the world to help them meet their goals by developing strategies and practices which support their valuable employees. ICF is dedicated to client service and a customized approach. With over 20 years experience in the work/life arena and 21 office locations in the US, Brazil, Canada, India, Russia and England, ICF has the capacity to offer global services to organizations of all sizes and complexities. Services include needs assessments, strategic planning, policy development, program design (including child care and elder care), communications, manager training, CSR, RFP process management for vendors, performance measurement, and workforce development. E-mail Margery Leveen Sher at msher@icfi.com, call 703-279-6271 or go to www.icfi.com.

The Blueprint Group
An organization's greatest asset is its people. We recognize this—as do our clients. We improve organizational performance by developing practices that tap into the female talent pool. Not only does this positively impact a generation of women seeking life and work integration strategies, but also the bottom line of organizations for which they are employed. Our innovative solutions include customized learning programs, leadership coaching, childcare finding know-how and more. The result of our efforts? Well-balanced people...and more productive workplaces. Contact – Maureen Clarke, Principal, info@blueprintgroup.ca or www.blueprintgroup.ca.

Counseling

Ceridian Lifeworks
Ceridian's LifeWorks offers a continuum of health and productivity management solutions to meet the needs of all levels of your organization.

Advocacy programs including global EAP & Work-life and addressing the needs around Consumer-Driven Healthcare Programs (CDHP).
Behavioral modification programs for societal ills such as smoking, weight, stress and cardiovascular risks.
Programs to enhance productivity including Leave Administration, Absence and Presenteeism Management.
Organizational Consulting including assistance addressing productivity demands faced by every company.

This helps everyone succeed. Employees make more informed decisions on emotional health and wellness, managers become more effective in improving productivity and corporations develop a more inspired, focused and committed workforce. 3311 E. Old Shakopee Rd., Minneapolis, MN 55425-1640. Please contact our Resource Center for more details. Tel:1-800-729-7655, ext. 402, e-mail: onesource@ceridian.com, or visit our website for more information: http://www.ceridian.com/402

FEI Behavioral Health
FEI Behavioral Health is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Families International Inc., a not-for-profit membership organization consisting of approximately 450 community-based mental health and residential centers serving families and children. FEI has provided employee assistance, work life, crisis management and other behavioral health services to an international client base since 1979. Our professional, convenient and confidential services are designed to address personal and workplace challenges in order to support a healthy, productive and successful workforce. We offer in-house work-life services for all dependent care needs and a call center staffed by master’s level counselors answering the phone live 24 hours a day. Our crisis management services assist organizations in planning, preparing for and addressing the human side of large scale disasters. Please visit our website at www.feinet.com or call Joshua Van Den Berg at 414-359-1055, ext. 3649.

Eldercare

Leverage Life, formerly O/E FamilyCare, provides a full range of Concierge and Work/Life services through various delivery options including telephonic, online, and on-site. Services include travel, tickets, restaurant reservations, home/car repair, child care, elder care, pet care, event planning, errand running, dry cleaning, car washing, and any special request. Our nationwide services are an ideal enhancement to your current loyalty, recruitment, retention, and productivity programs. Leverage Life takes pride in our technological expertise, exemplary customer service, and customization capabilities. Contact Cathy Leibow, cleibow@leverage-life.com for more information and pricing options or go to www.leverage-life.com.

Perspectives
Perspectives is an independent firm still owned and operated by its original founders. Since 1981, our primary business has been delivering human services to the workplace. Our mission is to create a healthier, safer and more productive workforce. We emphasize:
-an individualized approach to our client organizations' cultures that includes proactive account management aimed at integrating EAP/WorkLife services with HR and Benefits initiatives/issues
-early intervention with employee issues before they impact the workplace
-timely responsiveness to organizational needs
-one-stop shopping through the integrated provision of: EAP, Work Life, Managed Behavioral Healthcare and Online Education
Website: www.perspectivesltd.com
Contact #: 1-800-866-7556

The ShirleyBoard
The ShirleyBoard is an online community for people caring for aging loved ones. Originally developed to help its founder with the responsibilities of caring for his aging mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2005, the free site allows caregivers to centrally store important information, keep a log of daily activities, and network with other caregivers. Go to http://www.shirleyboard.com/

Summa Associates
Summa Associates is a work-life child care consulting and management firm with over 30 years of experience. An industry leader in designing, developing and managing employer supported child care, sick care, drop-in care, and home child care networks, Summa also provides child and elder care referral services and drop-in child care play areas. Summa has conducted numerous studies on research topics of work and family balance, employee satisfaction, corporate communication, training, flexible schedules, child and elder care needs, and many other work/life topics. Summa has a positive reputation of providing solutions that meet the needs of both the employee and employer. Contact Summa Associates at 480-921-2266 or www.summa-assoc.com.

The Family & Workplace Connection (FWC)
The Family & Workplace Connection (FWC) is a nonprofit dependent care resource and referral organization whose programs enhance the supply and quality of care for children and elders, and help families effectively manage their work and personal life responsibilities. For more than a decade, FWC has operated the nationally recognized Just in Time Care® program, a comprehensive backup dependent care program that helps employees choose backup care they are most comfortable with, for a wide variety of circumstances. Backup care costs are offset by an employer subsidy, which is fully administered by FWC. Perfect for companies with field sales or numerous locations! Contact Gerri Weagraff, 888-390-2900; www.familyandworkplace.org.

Work Options Group
Work Options Group's Backup Care Options program is the leading full-service backup care benefit available. For over 10 years, Backup Care Options has provided companies with a proven, cost-effective way to reduce absenteeism and increase productivity. Backup Care Options resolves every common breakdown in child, adult, and elder caregiving situations and allows organizations to provide consistent benefits to all employees in all locations by offering nationwide backup care, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for loved ones of any age, whether they are healthy or ill. www.workoptionsgroup.com or Toll-Free at 1.866.312.4332 or by e-mail at: info@workoptionsgroup.com.

Employee Assistance

Ceridian Lifeworks
Ceridian's LifeWorks offers a continuum of health and productivity management solutions to meet the needs of all levels of your organization.

Advocacy programs including global EAP & Work-life and addressing the needs around Consumer-Driven Healthcare Programs (CDHP).
Behavioral modification programs for societal ills such as smoking, weight, stress and cardiovascular risks.
Programs to enhance productivity including Leave Administration, Absence and Presenteeism Management.
Organizational Consulting including assistance addressing productivity demands faced by every company.

Employee Support Network, LLC
Employee Support Network, LLC provides employee assistance services to employers that are headquartered in the Long Island area who may also have nationally based employees. By providing early intervention to employees and their families, ESN can assist with problems that may impact employee's personal lives and their performance at work. In addition to traditional substance abuse/mental health counseling, ESN offers a wide range of work/life support including childcare, eldercare, financial counseling, legal service plan and more. Employee Support Network is not affiliated with any insurance company, managed care organization, or treatment facility. It is a "free-standing EAP" which means that it operates independently and is free of hidden financial incentives. This focus is strictly on the delivery of quality service. Tel: 631-630-2227

Harris, Rothenberg International
Harris, Rothenberg International, LLC, is a performance management firm. We help companies solve their most challenging and complex people issues. In everything we do, we work to remove the barriers that prevent organizations and employees from achieving their best. We do this by delivering Employer/Employee Assistance Programs, Work/Life services, behavioral risk management, executive services, and training. Founded in 1982, HRI is one of the oldest and most respected firms of its kind. We offer customized employee assistance programs that help boost productivity, reduce absenteeism, and increase retention, with enhanced employer support. For more information, please contact info@harrisrothenberg.com or call 800-441-7509.

Flexibility

CareCircle
CareCircle programs give employers a new way to protect their profitability, by helping employees reduce stress and remain productive while facing almost any challenging life event, including eldercare, sickness/accident, or even the arrival of a new baby. The programs provide users with step-by-step guidance on how to give friends and family the power to voluntarily provide practical and emotional support in dignified and private ways. CareCircle programs were selected by the Conference Board and the Families and Work Institute for a 2006 Moving into the Future Award as an “Innovative Approach for Addressing Eldercare, Flexibility and Work Life Issues.” Visit www.carecircle.com, or call 914-741-6742 for more info.

WFD Consulting
WFD Consulting has worked with over half of Working Mother magazine’s "100 Best Companies," over half of Catalyst award winners, and over 20% of Fortune Magazine’s "100 Best Employers" to develop pioneering employer-of-choice and work-life programs. In 26 countries around the world, WFD has helped clients assess and address work-life issues at the workplace and in the community. We implement retention and engagement strategies, measure bottom line impact of work-life efforts, manage corporate collaborations, create team solutions to workload issues, design workplace flexibility systems, identify dependent care solutions, and build women’s advancement and retention programs. Contact us at 800-447-0543 or www.wfd.com.

WorkOptions.com
If you want to successfully negotiate telecommuting, part-time, job sharing or compressed workweek at your current job, WorkOptions.com has the resources to make it happen. Features the popular download Flex Success Proposal Template for getting individual (not group) approval of flexible work. Online since 1997, WorkOptions.com has helped thousands get approval of a flexible work schedule, one person at a time. Take a look at www.workoptions.com.

Health and Wellness

Ceridian's LifeWorks offers a continuum of health and productivity management solutions to meet the needs of all levels of your organization.

Advocacy programs including global EAP & Work-life and addressing the needs around Consumer-Driven Healthcare Programs (CDHP).
Behavioral modification programs for smoking, weight, stress and cardiovascular risks.
Programs to enhance productivity including Leave Administration, Absence and Presenteeism Management.
Organizational Consulting including assistance addressing productivity demands faced by every company.

This helps everyone succeed. Employees make more informed decisions on emotional health and wellness, managers become more effective in improving productivity and corporations develop a more inspired, focused and committed workforce.

3311 E. Old Shakopee Rd., Minneapolis, MN 55425-1640. Please contact our Resource Center for more details.
Tel:1-800-729-7655, ext. 402, e-mail: onesource@ceridian.com, or visit our website for more information: http://www.ceridian.com/402

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Help for Employees

Programs for Working People
Programs or Working People, a Boston-based firm, is a nationwide provider of corporate work/life seminars that focus on a wide variety of work, personal, and family life issues. The training programs respond to the needs of employees at various stages in the life cycle, appealing to young singles, employees considering retirement, and just about anyone in between. The sessions are designed to help employees and managers lead more productive, balanced, and effective lives. Seminar offerings include stress management, health and wellness, work-life balance, effective communication, conflict resolution, change management, positive relationships and financial planning. Tel: 508-881-1782, www.programsforworkingpeople.com.

Work & Family Life
Work & Family Life: Balancing Job and Personal Responsibilities is an eight-page, four-color, monthly newsletter that corporations and organizations in both the profit and nonprofit sectors distribute to their employees or clients. It provides practical information on parenting, elder care, work, health and nutrition for people at every age and stage of life and in every family situation. Published since 1987, it is available in print and online versions: visit www.workandfamilylife.com or call 800-278-2579.

Relocation

Resource & Referral

Action for Children
Action for Children (AfC) is THE SOURCE for information, education, and resources for child care and early learning in central Ohio. We offer a variety of programs for parents, child care professionals, businesses, and the general community to endow all children with quality care and early learning experiences. For more information call 614/224-0222 for Franklin County and 740/369-0649 for Delaware County or visit us at www.actionforchildren.org. Please see our listings below and under Employee Assistance for details about our programs.

FEI Behavioral Health
FEI Behavioral Health is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Families International Inc., a not-for-profit membership organization consisting of approximately 450 community-based mental health and residential centers serving families and children. FEI has provided employee assistance, work life, crisis management and other behavioral health services to an international client base since 1979. Our professional, convenient and confidential services are designed to address personal and workplace challenges in order to support a healthy, productive and successful workforce. We offer in-house work-life services for all dependent care needs and a call center staffed by master’s level counselors answering the phone live 24 hours a day. Our crisis management services assist organizations in planning, preparing for and addressing the human side of large scale disasters. Please visit our website at www.feinet.com or call Joshua Van Den Berg at 414-359-1055, ext. 3649.

Harris, Rothenberg International
Harris, Rothenberg International, LLC, is a performance management firm. We help companies solve their most challenging and complex people issues. In everything we do, we work to remove the barriers that prevent organizations and employees from achieving their best. We do this by delivering Work/Life services, Employer/Employee Assistance Programs, behavioral risk management, executive services, and training. Founded in 1982, HRI is one of the oldest and most respected firms of its kind. HRI provides customized and verified referrals for any life issue to help employees remain focused while at work. For more information, please contact info@harrisrothenberg.com or call 800-441-7509.

LifeCare, Inc.
LifeCare’s specialty care services help people adopt healthier lifestyles and bring greater balance to their personal and professional lives. We offer a comprehensive range of services including work/life and EAP services; Successful AgingSM Services; health and wellness resources; an online Discount Center; and much more. For more than 22 years, we have helped to reduce clients’ health care expenses, enhance workplace productivity, improve commitment and loyalty levels, and strengthen recruitment and retention efforts. Currently, LifeCare serves 1,500 client companies with 4.5 million individuals within health plans, governmental agencies, unions and corporations. www.lifecare.com or 800-873-4636.

Summa Associates
Summa Associates is a work-life child care consulting and management firm with over 30 years of experience. An industry leader in designing, developing and managing employer supported child care, sick care, drop-in care, and home child care networks, Summa also provides child and elder care referral services and drop-in child care play areas. Summa has conducted numerous studies on research topics of work and family balance, employee satisfaction, corporate communication, training, flexible schedules, child and elder care needs, and many other work/life topics. Summa has a positive reputation of providing solutions that meet the needs of both the employee and employer. Contact Summa Associates at 480-921-2266 or www.summa-assoc.com.

The Family & Workplace Connection (FWC)
FWC is a nonprofit dependent care resource and referral organization whose programs enhance the supply and quality of care for children and elders, and help families effectively manage their work and personal life responsibilities. For more than a decade, FWC has operated the nationally recognized Just in Time Care® program, a comprehensive backup dependent care program that helps employees choose backup care they are most comfortable with, for a wide variety of circumstances. Backup care costs are offset by an employer subsidy, which is fully administered by FWC. Perfect for companies with field sales or numerous locations! Contact Gerri Weagraff, 888-390-2900; www.familyandworkplace.org.

Work & Family Benefits, Inc.
Work & Family Benefits provides the highest quality, customer-focused, professional work-life services in the country. WFB's expertise is telephonic consultation and referral services for child care, elder care, care for persons with disabilities and caregivers. WFB’s expert counselors are trained to listen to a member’s need and find real solutions when and where help is needed. WFB’s robust web platform provides members with quick access to dependent care solutions, free concierge services for travel and leisure time planning, and no-fee-for-membership discount programs. WFB complements its core services with legal and financial services, and has strategic partnerships with best-in-class service providers for enhanced work-life services (EAP, telephonic concierge, predictive health management, etc.). Contact WFB at 1-800-644-2363 or visit www.wfbenefits.com.

Seminars and Training

Active Parenting
Active Parenting makes it easy and affordable to offer parenting programs to your employees 24/7. Available in 3 convenient formats, you pick how and when employees attend parenting classes, from 'Lunch and Learns' to interactive online groups. For a Free $100 Work/Life Solutions demo kit, go to www.ActiveParenting.com/WorkLife. We can tailor a program to fit any budget! Ask about our free, customized websites providing your employees with a full parenting resource center. To view a sample, just go to http://www.ActiveParenting.com/APP. We can customize one just for you! For more information contact Cathy Daughtridge - 800-825-0060 X 115 or email Cathy@ActiveParenting.com.

Alliance for Work-Life Progress® (AWLP)
(AWLP) is the leading not-for-profit professional association committed to the development and advancement of the field of work-life effectiveness. Founded in 1996, AWLP strives to improve the professionalism of those working in the work-life arena and influence better integration of work and family life. In addition to serving as the membership association and thought-leader for the profession, AWLP also addresses work-life issues through publications, forums, surveys and as an education provider, including certificate courses. An affiliate organization of WorldatWork, AWLP has its headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz. Go to www.awlp.org for more information.

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20 years of research finds telecommuting benefits everyone
An analysis of 20 years of studies has found that telecommuting has a "clear upside" and a positive impact on performance, turnover and stress. Penn State researchers Ravi Gajendran and David Harrison looked at 46 studies involving more than 12,000 employees. Their report divided the telecommuting experience into three themes: psychological control or perceived autonomy, telework’s effect on the work-family relationship, and the potential for damage to relationships at work. They found that autonomy and control over how the work was done was a major factor in increasing worker satisfaction. That sense of increased autonomy may have been at least partly responsible for the increased performance, decreased stress and lack of interest in quitting. Telework also improved work-family balance, helping workers manage the often conflicting demands of work and home lives. Women remote workers actually found they received higher performance ratings and their career prospects improved rather than worsened. Relationships with managers and co-workers didn’t suffer as long as employees worked away from the office fewer than three days a week. The report is called, "The Good, the Bad and the Unknown About Telecommuting."
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