Each and every October is National Work and Family Month (NWFM), and this annual celebration offers a great opportunity for employers to showcase those organizational practices, policies, and programs that support employees in their efforts to achieve success both professionally and personally. If you haven't already done so, now is the time to pledge your organization's support for National Work & Family Month. There are many ways organizations can participate.
Here are just a few:
Please visit our website to find out more about these ideas, as well as others. While there, whether it is dependent care, health & wellness, workplace flexibility, financial support, time off, community involvement, or a host of other programs and initiatives, you can access a variety of tools and resources, as well as learn how other organizations are promoting work-life programs.
What organizational practices, policies and total rewards programs do you have in place to actively and effectively support efforts to help your employees achieve success within and outside of the workplace?
Does your company create a culture where employees are given the tools necessary to overcome personal obstacles, and devote their work time in a meaningful way, all the while ensuring that an engaged and productive workforce delivers the desired business results for your company?
Join WorldatWork on October 6, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. for "Rethinking the Workweek," a roundtable discussion to promote workplace flexibility, and be a part of the conversation all month by following hashtag #WorkLifeWins!
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Here are just a few:
- Promote your organization's commitment to work-life effectiveness by offering programs in one of the seven categories of work-life.
- Conduct a work-life needs assessment to determine where your organization ranks on the work-life continuum.
- Share best practices by applying for the WorldatWork Work-Life Seal of Distinction award.
- Download a National Work & Family Month logo to help spread the word.
- Promote National Work & Family Month using social media tools such as Twitter (using hashtag #WorkLifeWins).
- Join our Huffington Post blog fest and write a blog on the importance of National Work & Family Month to recognize the dramatic changes in the way Americans work & live today.
Please visit our website to find out more about these ideas, as well as others. While there, whether it is dependent care, health & wellness, workplace flexibility, financial support, time off, community involvement, or a host of other programs and initiatives, you can access a variety of tools and resources, as well as learn how other organizations are promoting work-life programs.
What organizational practices, policies and total rewards programs do you have in place to actively and effectively support efforts to help your employees achieve success within and outside of the workplace?
Does your company create a culture where employees are given the tools necessary to overcome personal obstacles, and devote their work time in a meaningful way, all the while ensuring that an engaged and productive workforce delivers the desired business results for your company?
Join WorldatWork on October 6, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. for "Rethinking the Workweek," a roundtable discussion to promote workplace flexibility, and be a part of the conversation all month by following hashtag #WorkLifeWins!
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