Whether you work to live or live to work, too much of one and not enough of the other is never good. We know people work long hours and no one ever got promoted by spending less time at the office, but work/life balance is becoming more important than it's ever been. We've got tips and expert advice on how to create and sustain that balance so you'll be happy both at home and at work.
Meet the 2012 Mom of the Year
Jennifer, a wife and mother of two boys in Oklahoma, has seen it all the last 12 months. In addition to trying to make ends meet as a working mom of two boys while balancing her home life, the Winn family was thrown an additional curveball … Read more...
Not Enough Hours in the Day? Spend More Time Helping Others
A trio of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Yale School of Management, and Harvard Business School have discovered a seemingly unlikely way to make yourself feel less pressed for time: Spend some time helping … Read more...
11 Ways to Raise Employable Kids
Family togetherness is a wonderful thing, until your thirty-year old starts sending drink orders from the basement and commenting at breakfast that it "sure would be nice" if you’d remember to use fabric softener on his t-shirts. Toddlers … Read more...
When Work Interferes with Marriage & Motherhood
Well-meaning grandmotherly types may tell you these are the best years of your life. Perhaps so, but that probably isn’t your first thought when your darling is the tantrum-throwing entertainment of Register #8. Motherhood is labor … Read more...
10 Things You Should Never Tell Your Boss
Does it make sense to promote someone with kids or a chronic illness when another employee is free of those obligations or difficulties? By revealing some private information to your boss, you could set yourself back when it comes to a … Read more...
Moms & the Art of Delegation
Many moms think they have to do everything or nothing will get done. But learning how to effectively delegate tasks is a skill moms can use both in and outside of the home. Read more...
12 Ways Working Moms Can Rebalance Work & Life
Outside the vacuum-sealed fluorescent-lit corridors and beyond the pitted asphalt of the remote parking lot, it shimmers with vague yet enticing promises of renewal and restoration -- home. And so you press forward, one patent-pumped … Read more...
70-Year-Old Census Records Highlight Shifts in the Working World
For many of us today, working means cubicles and computers and commutes. It means colleagues who have graduated high school, and many who have also finished college. It means earning tens of thousands of dollars every year. But recently … Read more...
Working Too Much? Go Home Already!
Pamela Selle wants you to go the heck home. Seriously. If it is 6 p.m. or if you are done with your projects for the day or your brain is just burned out from the last eight hours of staring at a monitor, Selle says, just go home. It's … Read more...
How Can Busy Parents Get Ahead at Work?
Q: Hello, you don't know me, but I saw your profile on Salary.com. You look so happy in your picture and I would love to see myself so accomplished in the near future! Do you have any advice for a hard working creative woman like me? I've … Read more...
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