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Be flexible Should a hardworking mom be able to ring the bell at work but also pick the kids up from daycare? You bet!
O ur company culture at A ffi nis Corp. (Best Firm #15 Civil for 2016) is built on five core values, one of which is balance. “We embrace the importance and worth of promoting balance between work and personal life.” When we wrote that value statement the business world’s definition of balance was generally seen as putting in your hours in the o ffi ce and then disconnecting from work for family time. In the years since then, technology and other factors have changed the way the world thinks about work/life balance – in many circles the idea of work/life balance has been replaced with work/life integration. No matter what you call it, at A ffi nis Corp. we continue to focus on helping our co-workers make the most of their careers and their life outside the o ffi ce.
Cindy Martens
schedules – and people use them. When practical, co-workers are supplied with laptops so they are free to work from other locations when it makes “‘We embrace the importance and worth of promoting balance between work and personal life.’”
Th is year, in addition to being named one of Zweig Group’s Best Firms To Work For, we were also honored with a When Work Works award by the Society for Human Resource Management. Th is recognition specifically focused on e ff ective and flexible workplaces and gave us a chance to reflect on our policies and how they help our co-workers live out the firm’s values.
See CINDY MARTENS, page 12
We have written policies for telework and flexible
THE ZWEIG LETTER January 9, 2017, ISSUE 1182 30, 2017, I SUE 185
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