Issue 8 of the Policy Leadership Series, Developing Work-Family Committees, is now available.

The Overwork Topic Page has updated information.

There are several new definitions in the Work-Family Glossary.

  Several of you have nominated yourself or others for the Work-Family Leaders Database. We want to continue to add more of you! If you are interested, please let us know at wfnet@bc.edu.

 Thank you to everyone who took our Website Satisfaction Survey! We received 234 responses--106 users identified the Research/Teaching section as their portal of choice, 57 picked the Workplace Practitioner portal, one chose State Policy, and 48 stated they used different portals to locate different types of information. Stay tuned for more results from the survey! Congratulations to the five respondees that won gift certificates to Barnes & Noble!

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

Heather Haddon of the Herald News reports on the passage of family leave legislation by the state Senate Labor Committee in "New Jersey Would Be Second in Nation for Paid Leave." The bill will probably go before the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee before a full vote.

Researchers at the Center for Creative Leadership and Clark University recently published a study in the Journal of Applied Psychology confirming that a worker's commitment to his or her family can improve their work performance. The article was featured in our January Literature Update; the citation may be found in our Literature Database.

Best regards,

Judi, Karen, Marcie, Tina, and Sandee