We now have new linking capabilities on our website! You may have noticed that it was not possible to link directly to some pages within our web site. For example, you could forward someone a direct link to our menu of topic pages (http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/academics.php) but you could not directly link to a specific topic page, such as our Afterschool Care page (http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/topic.php?id=3&area=academics). Now you can! Just go to any page on our website and copy and paste the url. We hope this will make linking easier within syllabi, training materials, e-mails and your own newsletters. For questions about links, please e-mail wfnet@bc.edu.

"Numbers That Work”: We recently polled our affiliates to determine the topic areas and types of information needed to drive organizational change. Thank you to everyone who took the poll! We will be using the results for a presentation at the March 2006 AWLP conference in Austin, TX. We would also like announce that Hanne Weedon from the ThirdPath Institute in PA was selected as the winner of the $50 Gift Certificate to Amazon.com. Congratulations, Hanne!

Judi Casey led a Boston College Work and Family Roundtable Brown Bag Roundtable session on January 25, 2006. Roundtable members received a virtual tour of the Network highlighting areas of particular interest to workplace practitioners.

The fourth issue of the Policy Leadership Series on Part-Time Work has been mailed to over 1,700 state policy makers across the country. The fifth issue on Afterschool Care is in progress. To view the Policy Leadership Series, please click here: http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/policy.php.

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:

Jacquelyn James, Director of Research at the Center for Work & Family at Boston College, recently wrote an op-ed piece for the Boston Globe asking “What are we to do with all the time, talent and energy of the largest group approaching retirement in history?” To read the article, please click here:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/rvp/pubaf/06/retirementboomers.pdf.

The Centre for Economic Performance announces new evidence that links management practices with productivity. The study of 700 manufacturing firms in France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. found that companies that are bigger, more globalized, and better managed provide a better work-life balance for their employees. To access Work Life Balance, Management Practices and Productivity by Nick Bloom, Toby Kretschmer and John Van Reenen, please click here:
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/management/worklifebalance_research.pdf

For more announcements and articles, you may access What’s New in Work and Family by clicking here.

Best regards,

Marcie, Karen, Judi, Tina, and Sandee