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The majority of our 6000 articles on Best Practices, Research and Work-Life information are housed in our Work-Life Clearinghouse and require a subscription to the Work-Life Newsbrief, which includes a free membership in the Clearinghouse. But the articles on this page are available to all with our compliments.

Awards
Childcare and Parenting
Communication
Diversity
Eldercare
Employee Assistance
Employers’ Efforts
Engagement
Federal and Legal Issues
Flexibility
Future Workforce
Future Workplace
Gender Issues
General Work-life articles
Global Work-Life
Health Care and Wellness
Leadership
Low-wage Workers
Older Workers
Metrics
Recruitment and Retention
Retirement
Rewards and Recognition
Supportive Culture
Training & Development
Work-Life Integration
Awards

The AWLP's Innovative Excellence Awards
The Best Keep Raising The Bar
Making the Grade: The Center for Companies That Care Honor Roll
Working Mother's 100 Best causes a flurry of interest – but only once a year!

Childcare and Parenting

A Totally New Way to Think About Backup Care
Breastfeeding Doesn’t Have to Be a Barrier for Working Mothers or Employers
Disaster Planning & Corporate Child Care: What CEOs Need to Do
IBM launches Global Leaders of Young Children initiative
Measuring the Immeasurable
Recognizing the needs of working fathers benefits everyone 
Study confuses, irritates, emphasizes the need for paid family leave
Working with Working Parents
Workplace Challenges of Millenium Mothers

Communication

Communication . . . The Missing Link?
Ten Tips for Negotiating Workplace Conflicts

Diversity

Steps to a Successful Diversity Program

Eldercare

A closer look at caregiving 
Eldercare: A Growing Concern in Relocation
Empowering the Employed Caregiver: A Shift in Focus for Elder Care
How to keep caregivers at work
Work-life as a risk management issue

Employee Assistance

For Multi-National Companies, EAPs Are a Great Resource, and a great challenge
The State of Work-Life and Employee Assistance-Integration
Work-life seminars: A fresh look at an old standard

Employers’ Efforts

A strategy for becoming an employer of choice
A strategy that matches the goal 
Corporate Voices for Working Families: Our Third Anniversary
The latest trend in benefits: How concierge services can improve your company's bottom line
The New Face of Corporate Citizenship
What winning companies do
"Whence CUWFA?"
Work-life initiatives to drive workplace innovation and cultural transformation

Engagement 

Improving Employee engagement
Manage for Full Employee Engagement Through Generational Competence
Take Time-Out for Parenting …but Stay Engaged! 
The Happy Workaholic: A role model for employers

Federal and Legal Issues

Learning from other people's troubles - sex discrimination lawsuits
Mandatory Overtime
Teleworking and the U.S. government
The challenge of Social Security
The Comp Time Bill
The Fair Labor Standards Act, revised
The great immigration debate
The issues surrounding gays
The current debate over revising the FMLA
The latest on FMLA
What we can expect from Congress in 2007

Flexibility

A Flexibility Primer
Entrepreneurs take lead in offering best work-life options
How to Unplug from the Anytime-Anywhere Office Without Disconnecting Your Career
Guidelines to Help Flexibility Work
How to Make Your Managers Fall in Love with Flexibility
Improving Work+Life Flexibility By Making the Employee a Partner in the Process
Making the business case for flexibility
Making Your Organization’s Flexibility Efforts Idiot-Proof
National Award for Workplace Flexibility
Overcoming objections to flexible work arrangements
Reducing Long Hours while Maintaining Productivity
Schedule Control as a Measure of Flexibility
The Women's Bureau takes on flexibility
When Work Works

Future Workforce

Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent
Coming soon: Demographic Craziness
Navigating the Perfect Storm
Senior Tsunami: a Workforce of Old People
The future workforce is lacking, but can colleges do the job? 

Future Workplace

A few thought leaders predict the future
New reports predict the future
The Evolution of Work-Life

Gender Issues

Sylvia Hewlett on helping women succeed

General Work-life articles

2007 - the year when all the puzzle pieces fit 
After 20 years, a whole new set of work-life issues
Change is in the air for AWLP
Colleges and universities meet to discuss work-life
Making a “Best” List: Dream or Reality?
One answer to the workload problem
Reflections on a Changing Time
Reflections on Work/Life
What's new in the work-life field?
Suggestions for Work/life Professionals
Time to start from scratch? Help is here
Today's Challenge: Keeping the Work-Life Agenda on the Table
What is “work-life” anyway?
Work-life over the years
Work-life professionals on the subject of work-life

Generational Issues

Dealing with four generations at once
Generational Competence
One Size Will Not Fit All

Global Work-Life

Global Outsourcing - A debate with no answers
Is Work/Life Balance a Global Issue − or has the U.S. Culture Simply Exported the Issue?
Promoting Work-Life Harmony in Singapore

Health Care and Wellness

Combating Sleep Deprivation in Shiftworkers
Consumer Driven Health Care
Encouraging Weight Loss at Work
The pig in a python moves on  - Fixing the broken health care system
Health Care reform - A significant achievement in Massachusetts
Helping Employees Reduce Stress
Helping Employees with Weight Loss
Seven steps to workplace wellness
The candidates on health care

Leadership

A Balanced Leader

Low-wage Workers

Backlash from the wage disparity?
Guess who's left out of the recovery?

Management

Becoming a Trusted Manager
Creating High Performance Teams
Cutting Meetings Down to Size
Running Successful Meetings
Talent management is now everybody's business

Metrics

A study offers a way to measure work-family culture
Benchmarking
Facilitating an Employee Focus Group
Five Ways Employee Surveys Work for Everyone
Successful Employee Surveys

Older Workers

Senior Tsunami: A Workforce of Old People

Recruitment and Retention

Act now to prevent an exodus later
Critical Talent and the New Career Paradigm: Some Industry Insights
How to keep your stars from moving across the street
Seven Tips for Retaining Talent
Successful Recruitment and Retention
The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave

Retirement

It’s Time To Overhaul Retirement Planning, Before Time Runs Out
Phased retirement
Will we be a nation of retirees on welfare? 

Rewards and Recognition

Tailoring Rewards and Recognition

Supportive Culture

A recipe for a supportive workplace
Creating a Trusting Culture
Take Back Your Time
The Secret to (Organizational) Life

Training & Development

7 Essentials for Training

Work-Life Integration

Choosing the Right Metaphor to Ensure Work-Life Quality for All
Integration is the wave of the future
Network Weaving: Using Organizational Strategies for Work-Life Integration
Visioning the Future: Defining the Standards of Excellence for Work/Life Integration
Where is AWLP headed – and why should you care?