May 2011
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Spotlight on Sara Sutton Fell, CEO at FlexJobs.com...
Last week we announced our partnership with FlexJobs.com. This partnership combines our software product capabilities for creating, managing, and retaining a flexible workforce with FlexJobs’ credible and targeted capabilities for attracting and recruiting results-oriented talent looking for flexible work arrangements.
Because FlexJobs CEO Sara Sutton Fell is a flexible worker herself, we...
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Featured Flex Worker: Ryan
This week, we’re getting a reality check about flexible working from Ryan, who really gets into the nitty gritty around the challenges of flexible work and why he embraces them.
A little bit about Ryan:
Ryan Rutan is 25% technologist, 25% marketer, 25% entrepreneur, and 25% silly putty. This amalgam has led him from being the director of marketing for a technology company, to the director...
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Flexible Work & Legal Risks...Take Our Flex Legal...
Do you have a solid understanding of the legal ramifications of flexible work?
Are you armed with the right information to avoid putting your organization at risk?
With legislation changing, you may be surprised to find that, right now, you’re not.
A great way to test your knowledge of the legal implications and challenges of flexible work is to take our challenge.
After you take the...
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Flexible Work Arrangement Week
The first week in May is Flexible Work Arrangement week, promoting experimentation with rearranged work schedules and locations outside of the conventional office setting.
To celebrate, members of the FlexPaths team offer their ideas for flexing your work arrangements this week. We hope that these will inspire you to embrace flexible work this week if you don’t already. And if you are...
April 2011
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Advice for Women Business Owners
Co-founded by Meryl Rosenthal and Robin Roschke, FlexPaths is a Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) certified business.
What is WBENC, you may ask?
The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), founded in 1997, is the largest third-party certifier of businesses owned controlled, and operated by women in the United States. WBENC, a national 501(c)(3) ...
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5 Myths That Hold CEOs Back From Embracing...
Formerly a fund manager and President of Beauchamp Financial Technology Ltd. (now a subsidiary of Linedata Services SA), Clare is now focused on helping companies improve financial returns and individuals improve quality of life by embracing flexible work practices. As Managing Director of FlexPaths, Clare drives new product development and UK sales of the company’s software products,...
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Featured Flex Worker: Jodi
Jodi works as a part time attorney in child abuse and family violence. She started 10 years ago full time and has also worked from home as a contractor. Now she works in house, part-time, 20 hours a week. She also blogs about anything and everything at jodifur.
A lot of our featured flex workers here at the work. smart. blog work remotely or telecommute the majority of the time. This...
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We're Attending the "Life Balance"TweetChat... →
When? Tomorrow, Tuesday April 12 at 8pm EST.
Just follow the hashtag #LeadFromWithin to follow along.
We’re especially excited because the super smart, FlexPaths friend Diana Antholis will be featured talking about life balance, career, and flexibility.
If you’re not already, make sure you’re reading Diana’s blogs: Enter Adulthood for millennials transitioning into...
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Top Ten Things We Learned at SXSW 2011
We thought the best way to illustrate the insights we gleaned was to share them via our tweets.
10. There are lots of collaboration tools out there, however, in the Loose Organizations session, Google Docs was the one that stood out the most.
9. We agreed that talent trumps being geographically desirable.
8. Companies have tools, processes, and workflows for their employees to use, but...
March 2011
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We're Attending the White House Women in America...
Image Source: WhiteHouse.gov
The White House recently released the report “Women in America: Indicators of Social & Economic Well-being” and on March 30, The White House is hosting a live chat with Shine to discuss women in the workplace, education, and workplace flexibility.
Who will be there?
Well, senior White House administration including Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor...
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March Madness For Increased Productivity?
Chances are, if you live in the United States, you’re thinking about basketball brackets right about now or know someone who is. Since a lot of the games take place during the traditional workday, we were curious about how managers are handling the “madness”. Does our passion for spectator sports impact workplace flexibility?
Read on…
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Legal Compliance and the Flexible Workplace: What...
Have you read our most recent white paper we released in collaboration with Littler Mendelson?
Mitigate or Litigate: Flexible Working & Legal Exposure
View more documents from FlexPaths
We participated in Littler’s 2010 Executive Employer® conference — one of the most innovative gatherings around employment law information held in the US, where flexible work was noted as the...
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Featured Flex Worker: Pilar Galiana
Pilar Galiana is a digital marketer with over a decade of experience. She started her digital career working for agencies such as Lasso Communication (a division of Grey Interactive Canada), National Public Relations (Canada’s largest PR firm) and Medium One Productions on brands like TD Bank Financial, Nokia Canada, Polaroid Canada and Xerox Canada to name a few. Then she moved to the client...
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Ask the Founders: Getting Technical, How Does...
Every week, “Ask the Founders” features our founders Meryl Rosenthal, President & CEO and Robin Roschke CTO & COO. They’ll be providing answers to your burning questions about flexible work best practices, telecommuting policies, the legalities related to the flexible workplace, and workforce productivity.
This week’s question drills down on how our products integrate with...
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39% of Women Cite Flexible Work as Reason to...
…other reasons cited included better compensation (65%), new, challenging work assignments (44%) and leadership positions (22%).
Accenture released a study for International Women’s Day, today March 8, and found that this year employees are more likely to reinvent their career at their existing employer than find out if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence…even...
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How to Write a Resume for a Flexible Job (Guest...
Traditionally, writing a resume was construed as crafting a rather dull ‘summary’ of where you have worked, and when, what titles you held, a few lists of what ‘responsibilities’ you were accountable for and perhaps a battery of bullets wrapped in percentages or dollar signs that assert what you achieved.
As a writing major in college more than a dozen years ago, I recall a technical writing...
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Featured Flex Worker: Leila
This week’s Featured Flex Worker is Leila. Can you relate to her flexible work arrangement?
Leila has over 11 years of experience and proven exceptional ability in planning and leading the development of B2B proposal strategy for a Fortune 100 company. She has been recognized by her employer multiple times over the years as a consultative sales advisor with a reputation for strategic...
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February 2011
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The Future of Work: Is it Flexible Chaos?
Some commentators and analysts suggest that the future of work is… chaotic.
Image credit: Kevin Dooley
For example, to describe the changing nature of work, Gartner research analysts as well as Imran Ali at GigaOm use terms like “work swarms”, “work sketch-ups”, and “spontaneous work”. A work swarm is a new kind of skills-based flexible project team. Instead “traditional teams of people...
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Featured Flex Worker: Jack
We’re excited to start featuring flexible workers here on the work. smart. blog because for us? They are the epitome of working smart.
Recently, Jack, known as “The Jack B” online, shared with me his flexible work arrangement and some insight into how he makes it work.
If you’re a flexible worker and would like to be featured on the work. smart. blog, please complete...
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Ask the Founders: Who's Entitled to Flexible Work?
Every week, “Ask the Founders” features our founders Meryl Rosenthal, President & CEO and Robin Roschke CTO & COO. They’ll be providing answers to your burning questions about flexible work best practices, telecommuting policies, the legalities related to the flexible workplace, and workforce productivity.
This week’s Ask the Founders question at first sounds like it’s about...
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FlexPaths® Sandy Burud's Recap of the AWLP...
Here’s our “Shift Happens” video that was shown at the Unconference
Last week, Sandy Burud, Chief Strategy Officer at FlexPaths®, attended the AWLP (Alliance for Work-Life Progress) Unconference in New Orleans along with other leaders in the work-life space.
After the whirlwind trip, she let me interview her and provided a recap of the unconference.
Was there a running...
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The Flexible Workforce and the 4.0 Career
Three stunning facts:
The average worker between the ages of 18 and 34 works at one place for 2.9 years “before moving on to greener pastures”.
In the 90s, 80% of young workers aimed to climb the traditional corporate ladder. Now, only 60% of people in that cohort have those career aspirations - and that number is steadily declining each year.
Most of these workers will quit a job to take a...
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SHRM & FWI Join Together in "Moving Work Forward"...
Today two organizations, truly leaders in our space, will officially announce their partnership later this morning. I’ve been asked to attend the press conference and I will be live tweeting from both the @FlexPaths and my personal Twitter account, @JessicaNow. The hashtag to follow along is #workflex starting at 9:30am.
Don’t forget to follow @SHRM and @EllenGalinsky, President of...
January 2011
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Flexible Work: What's In It for Me? (and Me?)...
Today we’re introducing a feature we hope you will find both valuable and insightful. It’s called “Ask the Founders” featuring our founders Meryl Rosenthal, President & CEO and Robin Roschke CTO & COO and they’ll be providing answers to your burning questions about flexible work best practices, telecommuting policies, the legalities related to the flexible...
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100 Best Companies to Work For...and a BIG HUGE...
This week Fortune Magazine released their list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. Winners were chosen based on perks, pay, and available jobs among other criteria.
We want to extend a huge congrats to two of FlexPaths clients who made the 100 Best Companies to Work For list.
We’re proud to be a flexible workforce solutions provider for American...
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Creating a Sustainable Organization
Yesterday, Sandy Burud, Chief Strategy Officer at FlexPaths and Jim Rottman, Global Vice President Human Resources at American Express presented a webinar in partnership with World at Work.
The topic? A Fully Flexible Workforce: A New Approach to Creating a Sustainable Organization.
In the webinar, Burud and Rottman outlined the five steps toward creating a sustainable organization:
Leverage...
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Will Working from Home - or with Geographically...
Yes, suggests a survey by Harvard Medical School. Researchers found that how often academic authors were cited in papers was connected to how closely they sat to each other. This correlation led the researches to conclude that “despite the positive impact of emerging communication technologies on scientific research, our results provide striking evidence for the role of physical proximity as a...