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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, click here to see a sample issue, 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.

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Headline news from the
September, 2008
 Work-Life Newsbrief

Teams help reduce  stress and burnout caused by workload.     Too much technology is cutting productivity.     Lawmakers honored for making a difference for working families.     Achieving work-life balance called crucial to younger generation.     Transferring knowledge is an art, says the Conference Board.     Teleworking? Someone may be spying on you – electronically.     Study finds security risks are often ignored.     Employees fear telework repercussions.     Behavioral interviews are focused on retention.     Equal opportunity has come to layoffs.     Gender matters little when it comes to values.     eLearners.com offers scholarships for moms.     France keeps making it easier to have kids.      Moscow: the world’s hottest labor market.     Not too many takers for a 3-month delay and an ankle bracelet.     As minorities become the majority, will the term be obsolete?    Retiring? You may want to rethink that.     To hang on to retirees, make them feel needed.     Part-time takes a leap and it’s involuntary.     Living costs rising fast as wages trail.     IBM donates teams to teach new markets.     Compressed week helps shiftworkers achieve balance.     U.S. falls to last place in preventing deaths.     Onsite clinic helps Toyota slash costs.     The cost of childcare is rising faster than the rate of inflation..     Too much technology is cutting productivity.     Lawmakers honored for making a difference for working families.     Achieving work-life balance called crucial to younger generation.     Transferring knowledge is an art, says the Conference Board.     Teleworking? Someone may be spying on you – electronically.     Study finds security risks are often ignored.     Employees fear telework repercussions.     Behavioral interviews are focused on retention.     Equal opportunity has come to layoffs.     Gender matters little when it comes to values.     eLearners.com offers scholarships for moms.     France keeps making it easier to have kids.      Moscow: the world’s hottest labor market.     Not too many takers for a 3-month delay and an ankle bracelet.     As minorities become the majority, will the term be obsolete?    Retiring? You may want to rethink that.     To hang on to retirees, make them feel needed.     Part-time takes a leap and it’s involuntary.     Living costs rising fast as wages trail.     IBM donates teams to teach new markets.     Compressed week helps shiftworkers achieve balance.     U.S. falls to last place in preventing deaths.     Onsite clinic helps Toyota slash costs.     No frills, no tuition, graduate debt-free.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. See a sample copy.

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THANK YOU. As always, you are a treasure-trove of help and information. I really appreciate WFC so much!

Mary Kalifon, Cedars Sinai Medical Center

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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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