We have two new additions to our web site!

The Workplace Flexibility Case Studies provide anecdotal profiles and supporting data to document workplace flexibility as a solid business strategy. Created by Ken Giglio, there are thirteen case studies posted on the Network's website so far.  Additional case studies will be posted in the future. Click here to view these case studies.

Looking for something on the Network website? Use our newly redesigned search tool which now allows users to sort search results by category. Users can choose a particular category or browse the full list of search results. Categories include Statistics, Definitions, and Overviews & Briefs, among others. Go to the homepage, click on Research/Teaching, Workplace Practice, or State Policy, and type a search word into the search tool in the upper left hand corner.

We recently polled our affiliates to collect data on "Numbers That Work," to determine the topic areas and types of information that would be the most useful for making the business case for work/life. The response rate has been wonderful—over 240 of you took the time to complete the survey. We are beginning to analyze this data and will share our results with you soon. Thank you to everyone who took the poll!

Be sure to keep checking What’s New in Work and Family on our web site for the latest work and family links. Here are two recent announcements:

”Workplace Flexibility 2010 is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation policy initiative located at Georgetown University Law Center and directed by Professor Chai Feldblum and Katie Corrigan. Workplace Flexibility 2010 recently began distributing the News Roundup, a compilation of news articles, op-eds, and recent reports on various issues related to workplace flexibility: topics range from phased retirement and flexible work arrangements to reduced hours, job shares, and career flexibility. The News Roundup can be found at Workplace Flexibility 2010's website—http://www.workplaceflexibility2010.org—on the left side of the homepage.” —Katie Corrigan, Co-Director, Workplace Flexibility 2010

The Fall 2005 issue of the Labor Project for Working Families’ newsletter, Labor Family News, features an article entitled “Mandatory Overtime Work, Work-Family Conflicts and Unions” by Lonnie Golden, Associate Professor of Economics and Labor Studies at Penn State University, Abington College and Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Associate Professor of Economics, Penn State University, Altoona College. To read the article, please click here: http://www.laborproject.org/newsletter/fall05.html#3.

For more announcements and articles, you may access What’s New in Work and Family here: http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/template.php?name=newsannounce#news.

Best regards,

Marcie, Karen, Judi, Tina, and Sandee