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Since 1984, WFC Resources (formerly Work & Family Connection) has been working to help employers create a workplace that's both supportive and effective. We offer a host of resources, including the Work-Life Newsbrief, onsite and e-training (your HR team can preview our courses at no cost), needs assessment tools, and the world's only complete source of work-life news and information.

Scroll down to read the headlines from this month's Newsbrief, and learn more about how WFC Resources can help your organization become an employer of choice.

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WFC Resources publishes the Work-Life Newsbrief, a monthly summary of news and information about new research, the business case, best practices, company experiences and legislation. A Newsbrief subscription now includes free membership in the Work-Life Clearinghouse with a password to search 6,000 pages, 17 years of archived news and research about work-life and the workplace.

WFC Resources' Web-based courses for managers and staff have now been completely updated, are on a new platform, and are compliant with your learning management system. The courses on Flexibility and Telecommuting will help you create a flexible, supportive – and effective – workplace. Our e-course, From Stress to Resiliency, will make that workplace healthier and more productive.

New! Helping employees fight the high price of commuting? Our Online Store features a brand new White Paper series that includes "Managing Telecommuters," "Becoming a Telecommuter," and "Compressed Work Week." They'll help you introduce options to help them reduce the cost of traveling to work.

Check out the store's huge variety of guides and toolkits to help you create a workplace that's both effective and supportive. They include The Eleven Essential Steps to a Successful Work-Life Program, now in paperback. At just $49.95, it's the world's only complete guide to creating a comprehensive, start-to-finish work-life effort.

If you're a company executive, work-life, human resource or benefits professional seeking to align your human capital with your corporate goals, then this site is for you.

WFC Resources will work with you to . . .

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Headline news from the
July, 2008
 Work-Life Newsbrief

Talent gaps, work-life balance are top global HR issues, says study.     20 countries ahead of U.S. in flexibility and women pay the price.     Generations must start talking to each other.     Gas prices pushing employers into action.     Going green pays off, say corporate leaders.     Give your company a citizenship checkup.     A bank gives money to workers to donate, paying it forward.     Transracial adoption law needs tweaking.     New FMLA rules are coming, but many still ignore the old ones.     Geriatric caregivers “poised for growth.”     New target for war on obesity: baby fat.     As economies weaken, even Europe may get tougher on illegals.     Measures get tougher, E-Verify is questioned.      EU wants to cap the UK’s long hours.     India’s women say choices are difficult.     UK workers can ask, but odds aren’t great.     Australian companies begin to offer paid maternity leave.     Stress causes sickness, say 64% of employers, but most ignore it.     Glassdoor raises the curtain on salaries.     Teleworkers produce more, say both workers and managers.     Prevention effort will try to end a whole town’s heart attacks.     2008: a good year for wellness programs, but are they working?     Plan could reduce health costs by $145 billion, say analysts.     Verizon is again best company for diversity.     Skilled IT workers are still hard to find.     Interviewing while expecting? You may encounter attitudes.     ROWE culture is now available in book form.Subscribe to the monthly Work-Life Newsbrief for as little as $230 a year and get the latest news about the workplace, new research and best practices. Your subscription includes free membership in the Work-Life Clearinghouse, giving you searchable access to the world's largest online database on work-life current events, history and total rewards, with more than 150 topics.  Learn more.

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“WFC Resources consulting services taught us that work-life is a business issue and helped us learn us how to deal with it as a business issue.”

Mike Chapin, Workforce Diversity Consultant,
Xcel Energy

“I've been getting good feedback. Both employees and managers are finding the training informative, helpful and fun. Just what I'd hoped for!”

Nancy Montgomery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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"Such incredible information! Monumental, truly." Dr. Sandra Burud, FlexPath

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President, Parenting in the Workplace Institute

Latest Research...

20 years of research finds telecommuting benefits everyone
An analysis of 20 years of studies has found that telecommuting has a "clear upside" and a positive impact on performance, turnover and stress. Penn State researchers Ravi Gajendran and David Harrison looked at 46 studies involving more than 12,000 employees. Their report divided the telecommuting experience into three themes: psychological control or perceived autonomy, telework’s effect on the work-family relationship, and the potential for damage to relationships at work. They found that autonomy and control over how the work was done was a major factor in increasing worker satisfaction. That sense of increased autonomy may have been at least partly responsible for the increased performance, decreased stress and lack of interest in quitting. Telework also improved work-family balance, helping workers manage the often conflicting demands of work and home lives. Women remote workers actually found they received higher performance ratings and their career prospects improved rather than worsened. Relationships with managers and co-workers didn’t suffer as long as employees worked away from the office fewer than three days a week. The report is called, "The Good, the Bad and the Unknown About Telecommuting."
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC., 11-15-07

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