Gone are the days when employees were given less preference while taking big business decisions. Businesses also understand that they can’t achieve their targets without the support of employees. Moreover, the new generation doesn’t want to work all the time on the verge of their personal life. They want and also demand more balance over their lives so that they can always stay active, rejuvenated and work with sound mind.
They are also looking for job opportunities where their skills can be appreciated and can have flexibility at workplace. So, companies have to give preference for flexible work arrangements to achieve higher productivity, employee retention and satisfaction.
All those companies who have managed to adopt work life programs are also able to attract new employees. If you are having trouble in designing work life programs for your firm, then you can take help of workplace consultancies.
One such firm in Chicago is Life Meets Work. These workforce consultants have a strong record on helping managers, HR professionals and employees to adapt to new, flexible working patterns.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Preference for Work Life Balance Programs
Rigid competition, late working hours and high employer expectations often make an employee’s life stressful and frustrating. The high stress level has a direct impact on the productivity of an individual. In order to help employees have a supportive work culture, work life balance programs are highly recommended.
Such work life programs do not only benefit the company by increasing work-flow productivity and reducing absenteeism, but also improve the level of employee satisfaction. With workplace flexibility, the families of employees will also be supportive as they can feel the indirect support of the company. This will help employees to concentrate more on their assigned work.
There are still few companies that are unaware about work life benefits and are struggling to fulfill their employees’ needs. If you hold an influential position within your organization, you can suggest top managers to give preference for work life balance programs. This will not only help you to achieve balance in your personal life but will also help you in attaining success in business goals with the help of satisfied team members.
Do you want to learn how to reduce or manage the stress in your life? You can take the help of workplace consultancies like Life Meets Work that will help you to design an appropriate program that will do wonders for your personal and professional life.
Such work life programs do not only benefit the company by increasing work-flow productivity and reducing absenteeism, but also improve the level of employee satisfaction. With workplace flexibility, the families of employees will also be supportive as they can feel the indirect support of the company. This will help employees to concentrate more on their assigned work.
There are still few companies that are unaware about work life benefits and are struggling to fulfill their employees’ needs. If you hold an influential position within your organization, you can suggest top managers to give preference for work life balance programs. This will not only help you to achieve balance in your personal life but will also help you in attaining success in business goals with the help of satisfied team members.
Do you want to learn how to reduce or manage the stress in your life? You can take the help of workplace consultancies like Life Meets Work that will help you to design an appropriate program that will do wonders for your personal and professional life.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Encourage Workplace Flexibility for Higher Employee Satisfaction
Managers always fear losing control over employees who have flexibility to work from remote locations. This fear often results into discouraging employees from taking advantage of work life benefits. What they don’t realize, however, is that when employees are satisfied and aren’t overstressed, the company benefits in all sorts of ways, including better retention, increased productivity, and improved customer service.
In order to balance the equation, there are workplace consultancies that are helping businesses and employees understand how work life programs can provide equal benefits to both the parties. Many companies have improved their productivity level by providing flexibility at workplace. But, it is also important to keep a check on the flexible working to ensure that employees are working for the progress of the company.
If you need the help of workplace consultant in designing an appropriate telecommuting policy, then you can take assistance from Life Meets Work. It is a well-known workplace consultancy in Chicago that has already trained hundreds of managers, helping them lead both on-site and off-site employees.
Book a speaker session to provide the essential training to your employees and team members so that they can adopt a workplace flexibility culture for higher employee satisfaction.
In order to balance the equation, there are workplace consultancies that are helping businesses and employees understand how work life programs can provide equal benefits to both the parties. Many companies have improved their productivity level by providing flexibility at workplace. But, it is also important to keep a check on the flexible working to ensure that employees are working for the progress of the company.
If you need the help of workplace consultant in designing an appropriate telecommuting policy, then you can take assistance from Life Meets Work. It is a well-known workplace consultancy in Chicago that has already trained hundreds of managers, helping them lead both on-site and off-site employees.
Book a speaker session to provide the essential training to your employees and team members so that they can adopt a workplace flexibility culture for higher employee satisfaction.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
High Gas Prices Driving Worker Demand for Telecommuting Options
Earlier, the work-life balance programs were proposed at different levels of an organization due to long working hours, time consumed in transportation, stressful working environment and so on. However, it has been observed that there are few other reasons like rising gas prices etc. that forces employees to stay away from the road.
Rising gas prices has led to an increase in monthly expenditure of employees. Employers are also worrying due to rise in gasoline prices as they have to increase annual salary packages or they will risk losing talent from their organization.
In order to provide employee benefits without increasing their salary package, an easy way has come up to offer them telecommuting as an alternate working arrangement. By telecommuting, we mean that a person is allowed to create a work arrangement in which they have flexibility in selecting hours and location as per their working pattern.
Managers have to decide whether they want to implement telecommuting policy as a traffic avoidance strategy and rising gas prices or they are ready to lose the top performers. If you are having proper in managing this policy along with work pressure and other work commitments, you can take the help from workplace consultancies that can help you with suitable solutions that fits well with your organization.
Life Meets Work a well-known workplace consultancy in Chicago that provides various services to help employers and employees adopt alternative work arrangements for better productivity. You can either book a speaker or take their membership program to stay up-to-date with the current developments in work-life balance programs.
Rising gas prices has led to an increase in monthly expenditure of employees. Employers are also worrying due to rise in gasoline prices as they have to increase annual salary packages or they will risk losing talent from their organization.
In order to provide employee benefits without increasing their salary package, an easy way has come up to offer them telecommuting as an alternate working arrangement. By telecommuting, we mean that a person is allowed to create a work arrangement in which they have flexibility in selecting hours and location as per their working pattern.
Managers have to decide whether they want to implement telecommuting policy as a traffic avoidance strategy and rising gas prices or they are ready to lose the top performers. If you are having proper in managing this policy along with work pressure and other work commitments, you can take the help from workplace consultancies that can help you with suitable solutions that fits well with your organization.
Life Meets Work a well-known workplace consultancy in Chicago that provides various services to help employers and employees adopt alternative work arrangements for better productivity. You can either book a speaker or take their membership program to stay up-to-date with the current developments in work-life balance programs.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Recent Study Revealed the Importance of Telecommuting Policy
A recent survey (http://www.lifemeetswork.com/traffic-is-no-1-reason-to-telecommute/) has revealed that cost and time involved in daily commuting from home to office and vice-versa has encouraged working people to adopt telecommuting as a suitable work-life balance program.
Heavy traffic and extra time taken to reach to the office has always been a major concern in some of the largest American cities. Some cities like Dallas, Seattle, Denver, Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Detroit etc, have also the same concern.
To provide solution to working people that doesn’t affect the productivity level of an organization, telecommuting policies has been implemented at all levels. Although every job profile has its own limitations and requirements, it sometimes becomes difficult and unmanageable to implement and sustain tele-working.
In order to obtain the right consultation, you can prefer visiting to a workplace consultancy. Like Life Meets work is a well-known workplace consultancy in Chicago that aims to provide suitable work-life balance programs for higher business output and complete employee satisfaction.
Businesses can take assistance in developing telecommuting program to make their functioning smooth and systematic. Life Meets Work provides assessment, training and speaking services wherein top management, managers and employees will understand the best techniques and ways to make their flexibility arrangement successful within their organization.
You can view their speaking services (http://www.lifemeetswork.com/services/speaking/) before booking a speaker!
Heavy traffic and extra time taken to reach to the office has always been a major concern in some of the largest American cities. Some cities like Dallas, Seattle, Denver, Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Detroit etc, have also the same concern.
To provide solution to working people that doesn’t affect the productivity level of an organization, telecommuting policies has been implemented at all levels. Although every job profile has its own limitations and requirements, it sometimes becomes difficult and unmanageable to implement and sustain tele-working.
In order to obtain the right consultation, you can prefer visiting to a workplace consultancy. Like Life Meets work is a well-known workplace consultancy in Chicago that aims to provide suitable work-life balance programs for higher business output and complete employee satisfaction.
Businesses can take assistance in developing telecommuting program to make their functioning smooth and systematic. Life Meets Work provides assessment, training and speaking services wherein top management, managers and employees will understand the best techniques and ways to make their flexibility arrangement successful within their organization.
You can view their speaking services (http://www.lifemeetswork.com/services/speaking/) before booking a speaker!
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Looking for Research Study Participants!
Workplace flexibility has become a need of an hour in order to balance personal and professional life altogether. Many workplace consultancies are helping businesses to understand the concept of flexible work arrangements and possible flex plans that can be adopted within their working business culture.
Among many workplace consultancies, Life Meets Work has gained successful reputation among businesses that provides consulting services to implement flexibility at workplace successfully. They provide training sessions to managers so that they can multiply productivity by implementing work-life balance programs.
Life Meets Work along with Career Life Alliance is in talking terms with Boston College Center for Work & Family to conduct research on the following terms:
1. To identify managers’ concerns about workplace flexibility
2. To propose solutions for overcoming their resistance
3. To implement successful flex pilots
The result of this research will be a blueprint for organizations to build a truly flexible work culture. Life Meets Work is on the look-out for research study participants who can help in making this research effective and successful.
If you would like to participate in this research study, then you can take a look at an overview of the study at http://www.lifemeetswork.com/research-study-sponsorship-opportunity/.
Among many workplace consultancies, Life Meets Work has gained successful reputation among businesses that provides consulting services to implement flexibility at workplace successfully. They provide training sessions to managers so that they can multiply productivity by implementing work-life balance programs.
Life Meets Work along with Career Life Alliance is in talking terms with Boston College Center for Work & Family to conduct research on the following terms:
1. To identify managers’ concerns about workplace flexibility
2. To propose solutions for overcoming their resistance
3. To implement successful flex pilots
The result of this research will be a blueprint for organizations to build a truly flexible work culture. Life Meets Work is on the look-out for research study participants who can help in making this research effective and successful.
If you would like to participate in this research study, then you can take a look at an overview of the study at http://www.lifemeetswork.com/research-study-sponsorship-opportunity/.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Monthly Tele-Conference Benefits Managers to Provide Better Work-Life Balance Programs
Flexible working environment has become a popular workplace culture for many corporate organizations. Like others, your organization must also have implemented workplace flexibility into HR policies and you must be trying your best to help your employees maintain balance between their personal and professional life.
However, workplace flexibility can only be maintained successfully, if the managers at your company are trained enough to take effective managerial decision that can benefit both the employees as well as the organization. Is the flexibility working well for the employees as well as for your profit margins? If you want answer to all such questions, then it’s right time for you to get in touch with a work place consultancy wherein you will find experts to solve all your problems related to flex programs implemented within your organization.
One such well-known workplace consultancy is Life Meets Work. Located in Illinois, United States, this popular work place consultancy provides training sessions by means of tele-conference that takes place every month. The sessions will provide you effective ways to enhance leadership talent, evaluate performance of the employees, productivity of the business, supervising teams working from remote locations and lots more. You can take membership to enroll yourself for the monthly teleconference such that your managers can experience learning opportunity from office/home or from convenient locations.
The monthly teleconferencing will help you resolve flex issues on time and you can expect to provide better work and life balance programs to your employees. With better solutions, the employees will appreciate your policies and will help in enhancing the business productivity to a great level.
However, workplace flexibility can only be maintained successfully, if the managers at your company are trained enough to take effective managerial decision that can benefit both the employees as well as the organization. Is the flexibility working well for the employees as well as for your profit margins? If you want answer to all such questions, then it’s right time for you to get in touch with a work place consultancy wherein you will find experts to solve all your problems related to flex programs implemented within your organization.
One such well-known workplace consultancy is Life Meets Work. Located in Illinois, United States, this popular work place consultancy provides training sessions by means of tele-conference that takes place every month. The sessions will provide you effective ways to enhance leadership talent, evaluate performance of the employees, productivity of the business, supervising teams working from remote locations and lots more. You can take membership to enroll yourself for the monthly teleconference such that your managers can experience learning opportunity from office/home or from convenient locations.
The monthly teleconferencing will help you resolve flex issues on time and you can expect to provide better work and life balance programs to your employees. With better solutions, the employees will appreciate your policies and will help in enhancing the business productivity to a great level.
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