When employees who provide care for older adults have the support they need, employers benefit in the following ways: employees’ physical and mental health improves; job satisfaction and performance increase; and job retention rates rise. Read Towards an Elder-Care-Friendly Workplace to learn what Melissa Brown, MSW, PhD Adjunct Facult, Graduate School of Social Work, Boston […]
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Workplace flexibility is a Universal Strategy that can meet the needs of employers and their employees, which includes when, where, and how work is done. Essentially, flexibility enables both individual and business needs to be met through making changes to the time (when), location (where), and manner (how) in which an employee works. Flexibility should […]
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As more people are juggling caregiving with working — including single parents, spouses or parents of people with illnesses or disabilities, and middle-aged adults sandwiched with responsibilities for both children and aging parents — employee scheduling can help these employees be more productive, less stressed and less litigious. Read this article from HR. BLR (Human Resources […]
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Allowing Employees Some Leeway Is Good for Businesses and the Economy The importance of workplace flexibility is the topic of this article by Sarah Jane Glynn and Joanna Venator, written for The Center for American Progress (an independent nonpartisan educational institute dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action). Workplace flexibility […]
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The Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging shares eldercare information through a newsletter. The September 2011 newsletter highlights Resources for Employers, HR Professionals and Employee Assistance Staff. You may also get back issues or visit the Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging site for their recommended resources and information about the organization The vision of the Metropolitan […]
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The United Way in Waukesha County in Wisconsin brought together a group of community leaders for discussions related to caregiving and from that the Caregiver Connection was formed to focus on employed caregivers, which many see as one of the most important human resource issues facing the business community today. This report, Caregivers in the […]
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According to the 2009 National Alliance for Caregiving survey, Caregiving in the US: A Focused Look at Those Caring for Someone Age 50 or Older, “among people who have been employed while caregiving, most have had to make a work place accommodation due to caregiving (68%). The most common work place accommodation is going in […]
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From a study in the United Kingdom: one of the key elements that facilitated the ability to work and care was work related flexibility. This took a number of different forms: part-time work, flextime, shift working or term-time working. However, this formal flexibility was not necessarily sufficient. It often needed to be reinforced by ‘informal’ […]
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Workplace Flexibility 2010 report provides a useful framework to employers, employees, and unions who are thinking about how to provide greater flexibility to low-wage hourly workers, and advocates and policymakers who want to better understand the contours of this issue and policy solutions, and for all who are working to make flexibility a regular feature […]
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