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Workplace
Flexibility: Ensuring Success for the 21st Century
Workplace
Options becomes a "Business Champion" in National
Campaign
 Corporate Voices would
like to congratulate Workplace Options for joining our workplace flexibility campaign and
committing their support for Corporate Voices' 2010 Statement of Support for
Expanding Workplace Flexibility.
Workplace
Options joins AOL, Baxter International Inc,
Bright Horizons Family Solutions - which signed on last week-and a growing number of businesses that
recognize the value of workplace flexibility to working families and to business
competitiveness.
Corporate Voices
issued a press release on Monday announcing the
start of the workplace flexibility campaign, and the website for the campaign is
now online at: www.corporatevoices.org/our-work/flexcampaign. We are inviting all of our corporate partners to sign our
Statement of Support for Expanding Workplace Flexibility and lead the business
community in this effort.
When your company signs the
Statement, it will become a "Business Champion" for workplace
flexibility, and join a cohort of
leading best-practice organizations recognizing the positive benefits of
flexibility to employers and families. It will be recognized at a high-level meeting at the end of the campaign,
will be invited to regional flexibility events around the country, and will
receive a workplace flexibility logo and Business Champion seal to place on your
company's website acknowledging this status.
Please send signed
Statements of Support to ysiu@corporatevoices.org. Please email or call Tiffany Westover-Kernan at twestover-kernan@corporatevoices.org or
202-467-8133 with any of your questions or comments - this is a priority for
Corporate Voices.
For more information
about the campaign and how to join, please visit: www.corporatevoices.org/our-work/flexcampaign.
To keep up-to-date on campaign activities and to participate in discussions on
workplace flexibility, please join our Facebook Group.
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Elevating the Voice of America's Youth
How
different would federal youth programs look if young people had a say in
setting them? Dramatically so, say
supporters of local Youth Councils and Commissions, a growing network of
advisory bodies around the country that work with mayors, governors, and other
local decision-makers to shape policies that impact young people in their
communities.
 Last week, Corporate
Voices was pleased to join the Forum for Youth Investment and several prominent
youth advocacy organizations to discuss this work at a White House meeting with
Christina (Tina) Tchen, President Obama's Director of Public Engagement. As a partner of the Ready by 21 Partnership-a
national initiative to ensure that all youth are prepared to excel in college,
work and life-we were able to join the conversation and share the perspective
of business leaders who see investment in youth programs as a vital down
payment on a skilled workforce of tomorrow. With the Forum, we sought the White House's support for a high-level
National Youth Council that would not only ensure that young people have a
voice in decisions about federal youth policies, but would also help align and
simplify the many public programs serving the needs of America's young people-and
disadvantaged youth in particular.
Tchen and
her staff spent more than an hour with our group, learning about the work of
local Youth Councils and welcoming our input on how to elevate their efforts
using the influence of the White House 'bully pulpit'. She noted that the White
House's workplace flexibility challenge-in
which Corporate Voices has been honored to play a lead role engaging members of
the business community-is a possible model for this youth engagement work, and
she committed to seeking input from us and business leaders directly as plans
move forward.
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What We're ReadingFactory Jobs Return, but Employers Find Skills Shortage, The New York Times, July 1, 2010 Paid Time off Programs and Practices, please contact WorldatWork directly by sending an email to Katie.vlietstra@worldatwork.orgEnhanced Employee Health, Well-Being, and Engagement through Dependent Care Supports, Bright Horizons, June 2010 Success at Every Step: How 23 Programs Support Youth on the Path to College and Beyond, American Youth Policy Forum, 2009 Special Report: Reading by Grade Three, The American Prospect, July/August 2010 How the Great Recession Has Changed Life in America: A Balance Sheet at 30 Months, Pew Research Center, June 30, 2010 |
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