The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line - Hardcover

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Joan Blades (bottom) is co-founder of MomsRising.org, MoveOn.org, and the software company BerkeleySystems. Nominated one of Time magazine's Most Influential People, she was named 2003 Woman of the Year by Ms. magazine. Nanette Fondas (top) is author of award-winning articles and research on management, organizations, and work. Featured regularly in The Huffington Post, Yes! Magazine, and her blog, MomsRising.org, she earned a doctorate from Harvard Busi?ness School and a master's from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

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Praise for The Custom-Fit Workplace

"A quiet but profound revolution is taking place in offices and businesses all across America?and The Custom-Fit Workplace is its practical and sensible manifesto. A must-read for 21st century employers and employees."?Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor, The Huffington Post

"The Custom-Fit Workplace extensively documents the benefits of flexible work and shows how forward-looking employers are implementing practices that work for everyone. Helping people integrate work with the restof their lives is not just a woman's issue but is something that affects allhuman beings and society. This book points the way to building more effective workplaces and a better-functioning world."?Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business,and author, Power

"Showing how to work differently, smarter, better, The Custom-Fit Workplace is an excellent resource for anyone looking to create a more successful personal career or a more functional workplace environment. The bottom line benefits are tremendous?people are healthier and more satisfied and organizations are more effective and successful."?Amy Lyman, co-founder, Great Place to Work® Institute

"Finally, a book recognizing that workplace flexibility is for all of us?employees, managers, and executives alike. Drawing on extensive research, Blades and Fondas explain how to make your work more compatible with your life. Full of innovative solutions and practical strategies, The Custom-Fit Workplace will have a profound and positive impact on people from all walks of life."?Herminia Ibarra, the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning and INSEAD Professor of Organizational Behavior

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Change is afoot in businesses across America and throughout the world: Dual-earning households continue to grow in record numbers; men and women are taking time off from their careers to take care of children or aging parents and are struggling to find a way back in; and workers at the top and bottom of the pay scale are struggling to balance their jobs and personal lives while making ends meet. At the same time, businesses are looking for creative ways to boost profits and retain their talent rather than eliminating positions to make their numbers. We are, in short, standing on the precipice of a workplace revolution.

The Custom-Fit Workplace explains how to navigate the changing landscape. It reveals cutting-edge strategies for managers, workers, and executives everywhere to fundamentally transform the way we work. Today's tumultuous, 24/7 world is wreaking havoc on the fit between the workplace and workers and, unlessaddressed now, will put our families, health, and communities on a collision course with our jobs. It has never been more urgent to align work and life. The Custom-Fit Workplace shows you how to do this.

Thoroughly grounded in research, The Custom-Fit Workplace distills the best practices that are transforming workplaces across the country, including work-from-home arrangements, results-only work environments, babies-at-work programs, and successful career lane changes. From flexible hours to part-time work strategies, these innovative approaches create win-win solutions for both businesses and employees.

With examples from both private and nonprofit sectors, The Custom-Fit Workplace will help managers and employees at every level forge a unique work-life fit while boosting the bottom line. This is an eminently practical guide for anyone who wants to reshape the workplace, reclaim their lives, and build resilient, effective, and respectful organizations.